Research Article

The Structure of Witnessed Community Violence amongst Urban African American Mothers: Latent Class Analysis of a Community Sample

Table 2

Comparisons of different LCA models.

ModelDescriptionBICLMR LRT P-value

1One-class2321.825NA
2Two-class2049.745.0000
3Three-class2086.014.3012

BIC: Bayesian Information Criterion. A smaller BIC indicates a better model fit. LMR LRT: Lo-Mendell-Rubin LR test P-value for K-1 Classes. A low P-value indicates that the K-1-class model has to be rejected in favor of a model with at least K classes.