The impact of socioeconomic factors on the healthcare costs of people living with HIV in Turkey

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Optimal Link Selection

	POWER (−1)	POWER (−0.5)	POWER (0)	POWER (0.5)	POWER (1)	POWER (1.1)	POWER (1.2)	POWER (1.3)	POWER (1.4)
AIC	1123	1114	1104	1092	1077	1073	1070	1066	1061
BIC	169,561	168,261	166,695	164,832	162,532	161,992	161,414	160,793	160,137
Log-likelihood	−85,879	−85,229	−84,446	−83,514	−82,364	−82,094	−81,805	−81,495	−81,167
Deviance	170,240	168,940	167,374	165,511	163,211	162,671	162,093	161,472	160,816
Pregibon’s test, P-value for squared term	0.178	0.305	0.546	0.323	0.421	0.475	0.626	0.906	0.754

Abbreviations: AIC Akaike information criterion, BIC Bayesian information criterion. Initial values were not feasible to fit GLM for power ≥ 1.5. Power links greater than 1 are usually appropriate for data having a response with a sharp increase of values (Hardin and Hilbe, 2018)

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