Elbow plot of AIC and BIC after LCA in gsem

[Jeremy Lim]

Hi,
After conducting Latent Class Analysis (LCA) with different numbers of classes (k), I'm able to get gsem to report the AIC and BIC using "estimates store" and "estimates stats" commands. Does anyone know a convenient way to then plot the AIC and BIC on an "elbow plot" as is common in the LCA literature? Thank you!
Jeremy

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

I’m not aware of a single command that would provide that for you, but it’s a straightforward enough line plot given you already have the ICs and know the number of latent classes for each model.