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Table 5 Model fit statistics in latent class analysis

From: Stress-related eating, obesity and associated behavioural traits in adolescents: a prospective population-based cohort study

Number of classes in model	Statistical indices
Number of classes in model	Girls
	AIC	BIC	SSABIC	Entropy	LMR p-value
One class	40869.835	40937.363	40902.411	N/A	N/A
Two classes	39696.616	39737.810	39764.728	0.829	<0.0001
Three classes	39192.423	39407.283	39296.071	0.731	<0.0001
Four classes	39128.532	39417.059	39267.718	0.701	0.0585
Five classes	39094.938	39457.130	39269.659	0.704	0.0152
	Boys
	AIC	BIC	SSABIC	Entropy	LMR p -value
One class	32361.412	32427.747	32392.795	N/A	N/A
Two classes	31878.669	32017.368	31944.288	0.978	<0.0001
Three classes	31756.911	31967.976	31856.766	0.570	0.0007
Four classes	31724.121	32007.550	31858.212	0.488	0.0144
Five classes	31711.079	32066.873	31879.406	0.536	0.7043

Abbreviations: AIC Akaike information criteria, BIC Bayesian information criteria, LMR Lo-Mendell-Rubin likelihood ratio test, N/A not applicable, SSABIC Sample size-adjusted Bayesian information criteria.

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