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Table 2 Goodness of fit and likelihood ratio test for incidence rates in Singapore, Sweden and Geneva

From: A comparative population-based study of prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates in Singapore, Sweden and Geneva, Switzerland from 1973 to 2006

Goodness of fit

 

Singapore

Sweden

Geneva

 

(Negative binomial)

(Negative binomial)

(Negative binomial)

Model

Res Dev*

Df#

AIC§

P-value

Res Dev

DF

AIC

P-value

Res Dev

DF

AIC

P-value

Age (A)

31.5

42

473

0.882

24.4

42

817

0.632

38.3

42

500

0.986

Age-Drift (AD)

7.2

41

451

0.999

6.6

41

802

0.999

14.6

41

478

0.999

Age-Period (AP)

5.6

36

460

0.999

3.7

36

809

0.999

12.1

36

485

0.999

Age-Cohort (AC)

6.4

30

472

0.999

2.9

30

820

0.999

6.1

30

491

0.999

Full APC

5.0

25

481

0.999

2.0

25

829

0.999

5.1

25

500

0.999

Likelihood ratio test

Model

Dev

DF

P-value

Dev

DF

P-value

Dev

DF

P-value

(H 0 vs H 1 )

AP vs APC

0.6

11

0.999

1.7

11

0.999

7.0

11

0.800

AC vs APC

1.4

5

0.925

0.9

5

0.972

1.0

5

0.959

  1. * Residual deviance.
  2. # Degree of freedom.
  3. § Akaike information criterion.
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