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Table 3 Model fit criteria of LCA with an increasing number of classes

From: The pattern of romantic and sexual related experiences among Chinese young adolescents: an exploration with multi-group latent class analysis

N

k

G2/LL

Df

Chi2

AIC

BIC

aBIC

Entropy

LMR

BLRT

2

13

163.4

50

223.6

5577.0

5647.8

5606.5

0.86

<0.001

<0.001

3

20

90.4

43

90.7

5518.1

5526.9

5563.4

0.73

<0.001

<0.001

4

27

37.7

36

29.8

5471.5

5618.5

5532.7

0.82

<0.001

<0.001

5

42

22.7

29

36.3

5478.4

5663.5

5555.4

0.90

0.05

0.33

Multi-group LCA

2

26

209.6

101

311.1

7951.0

8092.6

8005.9

0.93

–

–

3

39

120.7

88

161.1

7888.1

8100.4

7976.5

0.91

–

–

4

52

55.8

75

112.6

7849.2

8132.2

7967.0

0.88

–

–

5

65

36.4

62

37.7

7857.1

8210.9

8004.4

0.91

–

–