Table 2 Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) and percentage of patients delegated to that class.

From: Identification of four latent classes of acute respiratory distress syndrome using PaO2/FIO2 ratio: an observational cohort study

Number of classes

BIC

% Class 1

% Class 2

%Class 3

%Class 4

% Class 5

1

14717

100.00

    

2

14555

79.90

20.10

   

3

14509

11.48

57.42

31.10

  

4

14490

11.96

24.40

46.89

16.75

 

5

14500

22.01

16.27

20.10

10.05

31.58

  1. The optimal BIC predicted a four-class model.
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