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Table 3 Identification criteria for each LCA model with different number of latent classes by gender

From: Physical activity and sleep profiles in Finnish men and women

Nr of latent classes

Log likelihood

Degrees of freedom

BIC

Entropy

MEN

    

1

-18418.4

77738.0

9612.7

1.0

2

-17288.3

77716.0

7519.1

1.0

3

-17125.4

77694.0

7360.1

0.8

4

-17019.5

77672.0

7314.7*

0.8

5

-16953.7

77650.0

7349.8

0.8

WOMEN

    

1

-24335.1

77738.0

12238.9

1.0

2

-22916.2

77716.0

9573.5

0.9

3

-22683.7

77694.0

9280.8

0.8

4

-22549.2

77672.0

9184.1*

0.8

5

-22474.8

77650.0

9207.6

0.8

  1. * = The average posterior probabilities for the different classes in this model varied for men between 0.85 and 0.97 and for women between 0.87 and 0.91.