Table 4

Maximum Likelihood estimates (MLE) of the mean profiles, and common of the clinical and neuropsychological assessment variables across the selected three LCs (*)


Latent class means (#)




Variable
LC1 (n = 18)
LC2 (n = 41)
LC3 (n = 38)
Common variances

BADL (lost functions)
2.444
0.366
0.184
1.049
IADL (lost functions)
5.111
1.244
0.632
2.858
NPI
31.556
8.707
11.211
0.847
FBI, A
19.833
7.610
6.289
4.025
FBI, B
14.056
2.122
3.711
1.524
Neuropsychological Assessment




MMSE
19.283
20.917
25.790
2.198
Short Story (ES)
0.889
0.537
1.632
1.551
Colored Progressive Matrices (ES)
0.722
0.683
2.632
0.807
Rey Figure, Copy (ES)
0.278
0.585
2.211
2.089
Rey Figure, Recall (ES)
0.333
1.000
2.895
2.116
Fluency, Letter (ES)
1.000
1.000
2.184
2.122
Fluency, Category (ES)
0.222
0.756
2.632
1.279
Digit PNFAn (ES)
2.111
2.220
3.211
2.466
Token Test (ES)
0.722
0.927
2.895
1.682
Trial-Making, Test A (ES)
0.278
0.463
3.158
1.165
Trial-Making, Test B (ES)
0.278
0.366
2.105
1.226

BADL: Basic Activities of Daily Living; IADL: Instrumental Activities of Daily Living; NPI: Neuropsychiatry Inventory; FBI: Frontal Behavioural Inventory. ES: Equivalent Scores (according to Italian normative data, range 0–4; 0 = poor performance to 4 better performance). (*) All MLEs were statistically significant (i.e different to zero using t-test: P < 0.05), and expressed mean values.

(#) Statistically significant (P < 0.05) means differences between LC1 vs. (LC2, LC3) are bold-underline, while between (LC1, LC2) vs. LC3 are underline.

Borroni et al. BMC Neurology 2007 7:9   doi:10.1186/1471-2377-7-9