A General Latent Class Model for Performance Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests in the Absence of a Gold Standard: An Application to Chagas Disease

Table 2

Selection of models based on the AIC, BIC, and DIC.

Model	𝑝	AIC	BIC	DIC
SSensI: (𝐿=3, 𝑉=1, 𝑀=0)	7	1108483.0	1108514.0	1125999.0
SSensII: (𝐿=3, 𝑉=2, 𝑀=0)	8	1069892.0	1069927.0	1125833.0
SSensIII: (𝐿=3, 𝑉=1, 𝑀=1)	14	308389.8	308451.5	309236.4
SSensIV: (𝐿=3, 𝑉=2, 𝑀=1)	16	167959.7	168030.1	46198.1

𝑝: number of parameters in the model.