Table 2.
Number of classes | Log Likelihood | Bayesian Information Criterion | Akaike Information Criterion | Sample-Size Adjusted Bayesian Information Criterion | Number of Free Parameters | Entropy | Smallest Class Size (%) |
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| |||||||
1 | −67086 | 134240 | 134186 | 134218 | 7 | N/A | 100 |
2 | −41902 | 84036 | 83852 | 83960 | 24 | 0.99 | 29.9 |
3 | −41946 | 84135 | 83943 | 84056 | 25 | 0.79 | 20.9 |
4a | −41776 | 83863 | 83617 | 83761 | 32 | 0.76 | 13.7 |
5 | −41768 | 83914 | 83615 | 83790 | 39 | 0.77 | 1.8 |
6 | −41721 | 83897 | 83536 | 83747 | 47 | 0.73 | 2.1 |
7 | −41706 | 83946 | 83523 | 83771 | 55 | 0.75 | 1.7 |
8 | −41664 | 83939 | 83454 | 83738 | 63 | 0.68 | 2.1 |
Note.
Model selected as providing the best fit, as demonstrated by the relatively small Akaike Information Criterion, Bayesian Information Criterion, relatively high entropy, and relatively few parameters while keeping class size above 5%. Models 2 through 4 included bivariate residuals (i.e., addition of residual associations [local dependencies]) due to violation of the local independence assumption for LCA. Each criterion is based upon the Log-Likelihood.