Table 2.
Fit statistics of the latent class analysis
N class | AIC | BIC | aBIC | BLRT | LMR-LRT | Entropy |
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2 class | 4594.8 | 4657.8 | 4616.6 | 414.1*** | 405.7*** | 0.723 |
3 class | 4544.8 | 4641.8 | 4578.3 | 63.9*** | 62.6*** | 0.707 |
4 class | 4537.5 | 4668.4 | 4582.7 | 12.2 | 20.9 | 0.778 |
5 class | 4540.1 | 4705.02 | 4597.04 | 11.39 | 11.16 | 0.718 |
6 class | 4549.2 | 4748.09 | 4617.8 | 4.88 | 4.782 | 0.762 |
***P<0.001. The bolded solution was determined to be the final model. BIC=Bayesian Information Criterion, aBIC=Sample Size Adjusted Bayesian Information Criterion, AIC=Akaike Information Criterion, BLRT=Bootstrap Likelihood Ratio Test, LMR-LRT=Lo-Mendell-Rubin Likelihood Ratio Test