Dietary patterns and severity of symptom with the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and its histological precursor lesions in China: a multicenter cross-sectional latent class analysis

Table 2 Model fit information for latent class analysis of symptom classes

Subtypes	Model	AIC	BIC	Entropy	LMR P-value	ALMR P-value
Overall	1-Class	136,196.132	136,255.315
	2-Class	134,911.554	135,038.375	0.898	0.0000	0.0000
	3-Class	134,613.394	134,807.852	0.935	0.0000	0.0000
	4-Class	134,595.780	134,857.876	0.623	0.1470	0.1508
Esophagitis	1-Class	129,391.888	129,450.710
	2-Class	128,168.972	128,295.018	0.896	0.0000	0.0000
	3-Class	127,893.905	128,087.176	0.821	0.0000	0.0000
	4-Class	127,881.486	128,141.983	0.620	0.5484	0.5522
LGIN	1-Class	120,040.246	120,098.523
	2-Class	118,822.702	118,947.580	0.890	0.0000	0.0000
	3-Class	118,587.299	118,778.779	0.932	0.0000	0.0000
	4-Class	118,569.312	118,827.393	0.648	0.0750	0.0778
HGIN and ESCC	1-Class	115,838.134	115,896.158
	2-Class	114,651.925	114,776.262	0.889	0.0000	0.0000
	3-Class	114,426.629	114,617.279	0.850	0.0000	0.0000
	4-Class	114,414.785	114,671.748	0.688	0.1674	0.1721

Note: LGIN low-grade intraepithelial neoplasia, HGIN high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia, ESCC esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, AIC akaike information criterion, BIC bayesian information criterion, LMR Lo–Mendell–Rubin likelihood ratio test, ALMR Lo–Mendell–Rubin Adjusted LMR test

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