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Table II.

Model Comparison for Growth Mixture and Latent Class Growth Models

Model type	Number of classes	Entropy	BIC	LMR (p-value)	BLRT (p-value)	Smallest class size (N, %)
LCGM	1	NA	2,230.067	NA	NA	184
	2	0.811	2,064.222	<.0001*	<.0001*	84 (46%)
	3	0.818	2,015.391	<.0001*	<.0001*	35 (19%)
	4	0.838	2,016.910	0.0093*	Error	13 (7%)
	5	0.835	2,005.039	0.1817	Error	15 (8%)
	6	0.801	2,013.992	0.0718	1.0000	14 (8%)
GMM	1	NA	2,005.217	NA	NA	184
	2	0.873	1,992.235	0.0034*	Error	30 (16%)
	3	0.807	1,985.764	0.1119	Error	18 (10%)
	4	0.791	1,986.976	0.4153	Error	19 (10%)
	5	0.709	2,006.403	0.9896	Error	5 (3%)
	6	Error	Error	Error	Error	–

Model type	Number of classes	Entropy	BIC	LMR (p-value)	BLRT (p-value)	Smallest class size (N, %)
LCGM	1	NA	2,230.067	NA	NA	184
	2	0.811	2,064.222	<.0001*	<.0001*	84 (46%)
	3	0.818	2,015.391	<.0001*	<.0001*	35 (19%)
	4	0.838	2,016.910	0.0093*	Error	13 (7%)
	5	0.835	2,005.039	0.1817	Error	15 (8%)
	6	0.801	2,013.992	0.0718	1.0000	14 (8%)
GMM	1	NA	2,005.217	NA	NA	184
	2	0.873	1,992.235	0.0034*	Error	30 (16%)
	3	0.807	1,985.764	0.1119	Error	18 (10%)
	4	0.791	1,986.976	0.4153	Error	19 (10%)
	5	0.709	2,006.403	0.9896	Error	5 (3%)
	6	Error	Error	Error	Error	–

Note. NA = not applicable; LCGM = latent class growth model; GMM = growth mixture model; BIC = Bayesian information criterion; LMR = Lo–Mendell–Rubin test; BLRT = Bootstrap likelihood ratio test; Error = error in MPlus; could not provide result. The model solution chosen is bolded.

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