Table 3.
Fit Indices of the Grow Mixture Models for Different Numbers of Latent Classes
| Number of Classes | k | AIC | BIC | aBIC | Entropy | p for LMR | p for BLRT | Class Frequency | Class Probability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C1 | 9 | 8438.299 | 8472.943 | 8444.392 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1.000 |
| C2 | 12 | 8066.178 | 8112.370 | 8074.302 | 0.998 | <0.001*** | <0.001*** | 201/146 | 0.579/0.421 |
| C3 | 15 | 8049.273 | 8107.013 | 8059.428 | 0.860 | <0.01** | <0.001*** | 72/201/74 | 0.207/0.579/0.213 |
| C4 | 18 | 8046.470 | 8115.758 | 8058.656 | 0.856 | >0.05 | >0.05 | 115/122/79/31 | 0.331/0.352/0.228/0.089 |
| C5 | 21 | 8054.992 | 8135.827 | 8069.209 | 0.692 | >0.05 | >0.05 | 64/100/82/3/98 | 0.184/0.289/0.236/0.009/0.282 |
Note: **p< 0.01, ***p< 0.001.
Abbreviations: k, Number of free parameters; AIC, Akaike information criterion; BIC, Bayesian information criterion; aBIC, Adjusted BIC; LMR, Lo-Mendell-Rubin; BLRT, Bootstrapped likelihood ratio test; N/A, Not applicable.