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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Nurs. 2022 Dec 1;46(6):417–431. doi: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000001139

Table 1.

Latent Profile Solutions and Fit Indices for One through Four Classes for Spielberger State Anxiety and General Sleep Disturbance Scores

Model LL AIC BIC Entropy VLMR
1 Class −52832.90 105781.79 106083.02 n/a n/a
2 Class −51978.54 104099.09 104467.84 0.85 1708.70 c
3 Classa −51688.00 103544.01 103980.28 0.87 581.08 b
4 Class −51434.17 103062.34 103566.13 0.81 ns

Baseline entropy and VLMR are not applicable for the one-class solution

a

The 3-class solution was selected because the BIC for that solution was lower than the BIC for the 2-class solution. In addition, the VLMR was significant for the 3-class solution, indicating that three classes fit the data better than two classes. Although the BIC was smaller for the 4-class than for the 3-class solution, the VLMR was not significant for the 4-class solution, indicating that too many classes were extracted.

b

p < .005

c

p < .00005

Abbreviations: AIC, Akaike’s Information Criterion; BIC, Bayesian Information Criterion; LL, log-likelihood; n/a, not applicable; ns, not significant; VLMR, Vuong-Lo-Mendell-Rubin likelihood ratio test for the K vs. K-1 model.