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Table 2 Goodness-of-fit measures of the four different class models

From: Screening high-risk clusters for developing birth defects in mothers in Shanxi Province, China: application of latent class cluster analysis

Model

LLa

BIC

AIC

CAIC

Entropy

Errorsb

Nparc

2-cluster

116915.17

−233483.48

−233764.34

−233450.48

0.9997

0.0000

33

3-cluster

280772.34

−561019.12

−561444.67

−560969.12

1.0000

0.0000

50

4-cluster

331698.74

−662693.25

−663263.49

−662626.25

1.0000

0.0000

67

5-cluster

396908.65

−792934.38

−793649.30

−792850.38

0.9981

0.0007

84

  1. aLL = Log likelihood
  2. bError = Classification errors
  3. cNpar = Number of parameters estimated
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