Table 2

Trajectories of mental health problems from ages 11 to 19: fit statistics for latent class growth models with increasing number of classes, per type of problems

ClassNumber of parametersLog-likelihoodBayes information criterion*Entropy
Total problems3393012.0−5682.60.65
4523097.55739.70.64
5653144.0−5719.00.68
Externalising problems4522777.5−5099.30.71
5652850.95132.10.72
6782890.1−5096.70.72
Internalising problems4521710.7−2965.80.70
5651772.92976.20.69
6781819.6−2955.70.74
Attention problems226−958.22144.20.54
339872.62087.10.68
452−832.12119.90.53
  • *Used model is indicated in bold.