Fig. 1
From: Differential risks of syringe service program participants in Central Ohio: a latent class analysis
Assessment of model fit using Bayesian information criterion (BIC) values. Five models were developed, each with a different number of classes. Smaller BIC values indicate better fit. BIC value declined as the number of classes specified increased, reaching its minimum value (BIC = 47,267) with 5 classes, and then increasing by over 25 points with 6 classes. Methodologists posit that BIC differences > 10 provide strong evidence that the model with the smaller BIC value fits better [22, 53]. The red point at x = 5 indicates the minimum BIC value