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. 2008 Jun 20;7:30. doi: 10.1186/1476-069X-7-30

Table 3.

Modelling the incidence of pleural plaques using a complementary log-log regression

Model 1 Model 2
coefficient 95%CI p coefficient 95%CI p

Intercept Log(k/(α +1)) -5.093 -6.098, -4.089 <0.001 -4.553 -5.519, -3.588 <0.001
Log time since first exposure 1.340 1.045, 1.635 <0.001 1.201 0.913, 1.490 <0.001
Mean exposure (f/ml) 0.069 0.049, 0.090 <0.001
Cumulative exposure (100 y.f/ml) 0.211 0.142, 0.281 <0.001
Akaike Information Criterion 1230.3 1239.4
Fitted Incidence model 0.00823 × (TSFE-10)0.340 × exp(0.069. mean expo) 0.0127 × (TSFE-10)0.201 × exp(0.00211.cum expo)

95%CI: 95% Confidence Intervals

p: p-value of a test of a zero coefficient

TSFE: Time Since First Exposure.