“…In particular, Keribin et al . () detailed how to express ICL‐BIC for the general case of categorical data and Jacques and Biernacki () for the specific case of ordinal data by using the BOS model. In the present work, ICL‐BIC is therefore adapted for the constrained latent block model:where are the row and column partitions that are discovered by the SEM algorithm, and is the corresponding estimated model parameter.…”