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Table 2 LPA indices for determining the group number

From: Nursing teamwork is essential in promoting patient-centered care: a cross-sectional study

Number of classes

Log-likelihood

Number of free parameters

AIC

BIC

Sample-size adjusted BIC

Entropy

LMR LRT test

Bootstrap LRT

Number of participants in each class

value

p

p

 

2

-4247.14

16

8526.29

8604.68

8553.87

0.85

1735.14

< 0.001

< 0.001

361/631

3

-3879.89

22

7803.78

7911.58

7841.71

0.851

717.18

< 0.001

< 0.001

197/501/294

4

-3767.20

28

7590.41

7727.60

7638.67

0.83

220.06

0.446

< 0.001

224/85/441/242

  1. Note. AIC = Akaike information criterion; BIC = Bayesian information criterion; LMR LRT test = Lo-Mendell-Rubin adjusted likelihood ratio test