Multistage carcinogenesis and the incidence of thyroid cancer in the US by sex, race, stage and histology

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Akaike information criteria (AIC^a) values for TSCE models relative to the TSCE/P model^b

Relative AIC	TSCE/P	TSCE-P-C	TSCE/C
Females	0	-465.84	1215.04
Males	0	-177.24	145.14
White females	0	-540.56	974.3
White males	0	-157.3	113.076
Black females	0	-21.116	12.774
Black males	0	16.076	-18.528
Tumor stage (Females)
Localized	0	-777.6	438.8
Regional	0	-88.16	463.04
Distant	0	-1.092	-4.488
Tumor stage (Males)
Localized	0	-95.136	202.464
Regional	0	-55.4308	28.659
Distant	0	20.168	4.128

TSCE two-stage clonal expansion model, TSCE/P TSCE period; TSCE/C, TSCE cohort; TSCE-P-C, TSCE period-cohort
^a -2 × log(likelihood) + 2 × number of estimated parameters
^b Relative values that weight the goodness of fit of the model to empirical data. The lower the AIC, the better the model fit

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