Table 4 Goodness of fit for latent class models (n = 47,004)
Number of classes | Log Likelihood | Number of parameters | AIC | BIC | AdjBIC | LMRT P-value | Entropy | BLRT P-value | No. classes with n < 5% study sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Level 1–5 | |||||||||
 2 | − 156,499 | 51 | 313,100 | 313,547 | 313,385 | 0.33 | 0.94 | 0.00 | 0 |
 3 | −151,298 | 77 | 302,751 | 303,425 | 303,180 | 0.00 | 0.90 | 0.00 | 1 |
 4 | −148,819 | 103 | 297,844 | 298,746 | 298,419 | 0.00 | 0.91 | 0.00 | 1 |
 5 | − 147,881 | 129 | 296,016 | 297,146 | 296,736 | 0.68 | 0.90 | 0.00 | 2 |
 6 | −147,078 | 155 | 294,467 | 295,824 | 295,332 | 0.00 | 0.89 | 0.00 | 4 |
Level 1–4 | |||||||||
 2 | −133,617 | 51 | 267,337 | 267,783 | 267,620 | 0.00 | 0.90 | 0.00 | 0 |
 3 | −130,798 | 77 | 261,750 | 262,423 | 262,178 | 0.00 | 0.89 | 0.00 | 1 |
 4 | − 129,473 | 103 | 259,153 | 260,053 | 259,726 | 0.00 | 0.88 | 0.00 | 2 |
 5 | −129,004 | 129 | 258,267 | 259,394 | 258,984 | 0.68 | 0.85 | 0.00 | 3 |
 6 | − 128,604 | 155 | 257,519 | 258,874 | 258,381 | 0.10 | 0.86 | 0.00 | 5 |
Level 5 | |||||||||
 2 | −13,929 | 51 | 27,960 | 28,208 | 28,046 | 0.00 | 0.83 | 0.000 | 0 |
 3 | −13,748 | 77 | 27,651 | 28,024 | 27,780 | 0.0004 | 0.85 | 0.000 | 0 |
 4 | −13,579 | 103 | 27,365 | 27,864 | 27,537 | 0.001 | 0.87 | 0.000 | 0 |
 5 | −13,456 | 129 | 27,170 | 27,795 | 27,386 | 0.11 | 0.83 | 0.000 | 0 |
 6 | −13,389 | 155 | 27,088 | 27,839 | 27,347 | 0.72 | 0.78 | 0.000 | 1 |