Table 3.

Fit Statistics for Candidate Models (MA claims)

Model	Fit Statistics
	AIC	BIC
(A) Piecewise linear with knots at 14 and 30 days	7,666.8	7,920.6
(B) Piecewise linear with a knot at 14 days	7,664.9	7,868.0
(C) Piecewise linear with a knot at 14 days and horizontal tail	7,665.3	7,803.1
(D) Piecewise quadratic with a knot at 14 days	7,626.9	7,960.6
(E) Piecewise quadratic with a knot at 14 days and horizontal tail	7,621.4	7,824.5
(F) Logarithmic	7,666.0	7,803.8
(G) Constant (Traditional)	9,605.0	9,677.6

AIC: Akaike Information Criterion BIC: Bayesian Information Criterion.