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. 2020 May;104:106281. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106281

Table 3.

Latent class analysis statistical criterions, the 4-class solution accepted in bold.

2-class 3-class 4-class 5-class 6-class
AIC 162,975.51 160,272.24 159,596.63 159,536.54 159,526.26
BIC 163,218.75 160,572.70 159,954.32 159,951.46 159,998.41
Proportions 52% (n = 4934) 50% (n = 4746) 38% (n = 3584) 33% (n = 3086) 32% (n = 3041)
48% (n = 4517) 29% (n = 2735) 30% (n = 2857) 27% (n = 2559) 27% (n = 2558)
21% (n = 1970) 27% (n = 2591) 27% (n = 2544) 26% (n = 2418)
4% (n = 420) 11% (n = 1078) 13% (n = 1196)
2% (n = 184) 2% (n = 235)
0% (n = 2)
Entropy 0.78 0.77 0.74 0.68 0.70
Classification accuracy* 94% 91% 86% 80% 79%
93% 92% 84% 88% 88%
88% 89% 71% 68%
85% 72% 71%
82% 82%
100%
VLMR LRT p < 0.05 p < 0.05 p < 0.05 p < 0.05 p = 0.36
LMR LRT p < 0.05 p < 0.05 p < 0.05 p < 0.05 p = 0.37

*Average latent class probabilities for most likely latent class membership