Application of latent class analysis in assessing the competency of physicians in China

BMC Medical Education

Table 5 Latent classification probability and conditional probabilities of the eight competency dimensions of the physicians

	Conditional probability
	Class = 1	Class = 2	Class = 3	Class = 4
1
Unimportant	0.0295	0.3964	0.0763	0.6370
Important	0.9705	0.6036	0.9237	0.3630
2
Unimportant	0.0325	0.5480	0.2370	0.9795
Important	0.9675	0.4520	0.7630	0.0205
3
Unimportant	0.0296	0.2672	0.1877	0.8568
Important	0.9704	0.7328	0.8126	0.1432
4
Unimportant	0.0077	0.1725	0.2484	0.8549
Important	0.9923	0.8275	0.7516	0.1451
5
Unimportant	0.0053	0.1309	0.3445	0.7875
Important	0.9947	0.8691	0.6555	0.2125
6
Unimportant	0.0113	0.0592	0.5162	0.8622
Important	0.9887	0.9408	0.4838	0.1378
7
Unimportant	0.0119	0.1815	0.5510	0.9034
Important	0.9881	0.8185	0.4490	0.0966
8
Unimportant	0.0065	0.0753	0.3154	0.6168
Important	0.9935	0.9247	0.6846	0.3832
Latent classification probability	0.8801	0.0657	0.0432	0.0110

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