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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2015 Sep 3;171(7):948–957. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32375

Table 4 -.

Latent Growth Model Fit in Males

Model # Cl   # Params LogLik   BIC Entropy    Class
    Percentages
Mother Reports (Age 7-12)
1. No Random Effects 1 4 -24172 48379
2 7 -22520 45103 .66 60, 40
3 10 -22169 44427 .61 46, 36, 18
4 13 -22121 44359 .63 45, 29, 22, 04
5 Failed to replicate likelihood
2. Random Intercept 1 5 -22189 44423
2 Failed to converge
3. Random Intercept and Slope 1 6 -22189 44431
2 Failed to replicate likelihood

Self-Reports (Age 14-18)
4. No Random Effects 1 4 -4502 9033
2 7 -4317 8687 .60 67, 33
3 10 -4287 8650 .50 43, 42, 15,
4 13 -4283 8663 .42 35, 28, 21, 16
5. Random Intercept 1 5 -4291 8619
2 Failed to replicate likelihood
6. Random Intercept and Slope 1 6 -4288 8622
2 Failed to replicate likelihood

Piecewise Models (Age 7-18)
7. Random intercept 1 9 -29596 59273
2 15 -29545 59224 .4 76, 24
8. Rater Mean Difference = 0* 1 8 -29612 59297

* Δχ2=25.4, df=1, p = 4.5E-8

Latent class growth models for maternal and self-ratings separately, and jointly using a piecewise model. Models were estimated with an increasing number of classes (Cl). Shown are the number of estimated parameters in the model, the final log likelihood value, the Bayesian information criterion (BIC), Entropy, and class proportions. Models with multiple classes did not have significantly lower BIC than models with a single class (bold). For the piecewise models, we selected a single class model because entropy was low indicating poor class assignment. Secondly, the BIC of the two class model fell within 1 SD of bootstrapped BIC for the single class model (BIC SD = 1142). Model 8 tested whether the second intercept was necessary to model the discontinuity between raters at ages 12 and 14. This was done by testing whether the mean of the second intercept could be set equal to 0. This model fit significantly worse than the unconstrained model, indicating a mean difference between raters.