Table 3.
Akaike information criterion (AIC) of age-period-cohort sub-models for gastrointestinal cancers incidence and mortality, Yangzhong, 1991–2015.
| Sub-models | Gastric cancer | Esophageal cancer | Colorectal cancer | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incidence | Mortality | Incidence | Mortality | Incidence | Mortality | |||||||
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| Age-period-cohort | 7.98 | 7.24 | 7.57 | 6.71 | 7.35 | 7.15 | 6.71 | 6.18 | 5.95 | 5.75 | 4.96 | 4.61 |
| Age-drift | 769.17 | 714.42 | 887.73 | 813.44 | 631.20 | 993.02 | 606.14 | 762.33 | 334.17 | 276.28 | 232.42 | 227.31 |
| Age-period | 489.28 | 430.97 | 453.00 | 368.98 | 522.95 | 609.57 | 402.82 | 431.81 | 287.29 | 275.44 | 230.83 | 223.79 |
| Age-cohort | 397.51 | 357.08 | 477.74 | 405.07 | 375.58 | 363.76 | 397.99 | 346.10 | 291.91 | 282.57 | 244.66 | 233.77 |