Table 2

Goodness-of-fit measures and estimated class-specific response probabilities of the five investigated models for deciding the number of classes (n=9204)

Number of classes	Goodness-of-fit measures			Estimated class-specific response probabilities
Number of classes	Entropy	BIC	VLMR	Class 1	Class 2	Class 3	Class 4	Class 5
1	–	53 267	–	1.000
2	0.634	51 685	p<0.001*	0.855	0.895
3	0.737	51 556	p=0.018*	0.814	0.780	0.935
4	0.723	51 513	p=0.007*	0.884	0.833	0.910	0.803
5	0.734	51 535	p=0.384	0.889	0.904	0.778	0.841	0.860

*p<0.05.
BIC, Bayesian information criterion; VLMR, Vuong-Lo-Mendell-Rubin adjusted likelihood ratio test.