Table 3 Statistical measures for the single-stage and two-stage (second stage) Latent Class Analysis approaches

Variables, N

112

6

Identified patient subgroups, N

7

9

Subgroup size range, N

75-192 (8%-21%)

45-219 (5%-24%)

Posterior probability, median (interquartile range)

1.00 (0.99-1.00)

0.91 (0.75-0.99)

Subjects with posterior probability less than 0.70 on average per subgroup, N

4 (3%) Range: 1–7 (1%-5%)

20 (19%) Range: 3–41 (6%-32%)

Subjects with posterior probability above 0.33 for more than one subgroup, N

18 (2%)

81 (9%)