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Table 3 Goodness of fit and likelihood ratio test for mortality 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)

(Poisson)

Model

Res Dev*

Df#

AIC§

P-value

Res Dev

DF

AIC

P-value

Res Dev

DF

AIC

P-value

Age (A)

13.5

42

402

0.999

1.1079

42

641

0.999

72.0

42

282

0.003

Age-Drift (AD)

13.3

41

404

0.999

1.1077

41

643

0.999

40.4

41

252

0.495

Age-Period (AP)

8.7

36

409

0.999

0.71

36

653

0.999

32.4

36

254

0.642

Age-Cohort (AC)

6.9

30

419

0.999

0.50

30

665

0.999

34.1

35

263

0.512

Full APC

5.0

25

428

0.999

0.28

25

674

0.999

27.6

30

267

0.594

Likelihood ratio test

Model (H 0 vs H 1 )

Dev

DF

P-value

Dev

DF

P-value

Dev

DF

P-value

AP vs APC

3.7

11

0.979

0.43

11

0.999

4.8

6

0.570

AC vs APC

1.9

5

0.869

0.22

5

0.999

6.5

5

0.258

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