Time trend analysis of primary liver cancer incidence in Sihui county of Guangdong Province, China (1987–2011)

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Table 2 Age-period-cohort models for PLC incidence rates in Sihui, China

	DF	Deviance	Deviance/DF	ΔDeviance	ΔDF	P	AIC
Male
Age	44	157.34	3.58	114.38	17	<0.001	10432
Period	50	1103.36	22.07	1060.04	23	<0.001	11366
Cohort	40	507.06	12.68	464.04	13	<0.001	10790
Age-period	40	87.76	2.19	44.8	13	<0.001	10370
Age-cohort	30	69.51	2.31	26.55	3	<0.001	10372
Period-cohort	36	140.28	3.9	97.32	9	<0.001	10431
Age-period-cohort	27	42.96	1.59	Reference	Reference	Reference	10352
Female
Age	44	98.48	2.24	69.53	17	<0.001	11483
Period	50	407.97	8.16	379.02	23	<0.001	11780
Cohort	40	113.21	2.83	84.26	13	<0.001	11505
Age-period	40	75.99	1.9	47.04	13	<0.001	11468
Age-cohort	30	47.2	1.57	18.25	3	<0.001	11459
Period-cohort	36	42.19	1.17	13.24	9	0.152	11443
Age-period-cohort	27	28.95	1.07	Reference	Reference	Reference	11447

DF Degree of freedom, ΔDeviance increase in deviance from the APC model, ΔDF increase in DF from the APC model, AIC Akaike’s information criterion

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