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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 2.
Published in final edited form as: Carcinogenesis. 2006 Jan 12;27(7):1432–1444. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgi345

Table V.

EPIC males and females: best estimates and 95% CIs (in parentheses) for the background mutation rates are given for different model fits

1 2 3
Fit-RIVM4
4
Fit-RIVM5
Males μ0 (10−7 per year), for all (other) countries 2.35 (2.28–2.43) 2.40 (2.29–2.52)
μ0 (10−7 per year), for Germany 2.95 (2.61–3.31)
μ0 (10−7 per year), for Greece, Netherlands, Sweden 1.85 (1.62–2.10)
–loglikelihood 617.42 605.10
fit-RIVM6 fit-RIVM7
Females μ0 (10−7 per year), for all other countries 2.54 (2.45–2.63) 2.62 (2.52–2.72)
μ0 (10−7 per year), for Greece, Spain 1.65 (1.20–2.16)
–loglikelihood 532.59 526.55