Home resources as a measure of socio-economic status in Ghana

Large-scale Assessments in Education

An IERI – International Educational Research Institute Journal

Table 2 Indices for the latent class analysis

Class	p	log likelihood (L)	BIC	SSA-BIC	Entropy	VLMR	Average latent class probabilities
Class	p	log likelihood (L)	BIC	SSA-BIC	Entropy	VLMR	1	2	3
1	11	−47,836.032	95,769.878	95,734.922			0.850	0.003	0.147
2	23	−44,162.136	88,528.793	88,455.704	0.710	0.000	0.002	0.862	0.135
3	35	−43,715.660	87,742.546	87,631.324	0.633	0.035	0.104	0.104	0.793
4	47	−43,584.907	87,587.747	87,438.391	0.569	0.460
5	59	−43,470.071	87,464.782	87,277.293	0.614	0.414

BIC Bayesian information criterion, SSA-BIC sample-size-adjusted Bayesian information criterion, VLMR Vuong–Lo–Mendell–Rubin, p Number of parameter estimates