Table C.18.

Result for the incidence of hepatocellular carcinomas reported by Moser et al. (2009), using model averaging

Model	Number of parameters	Log‐likelihood	AIC	BMD	BMDL	BMDU	Converged	Accepted AIC
Null	1	−71.83	145.66	NA	NA	NA	Yes
Full	6	−59.59	131.18	NA	NA	NA	Yes
Logistic	2	−61.78	127.56	5.14	4.22	6.66	Yes	Yes
Probit	2	−61.94	127.88	4.89	3.92	6.60	Yes	Yes
Log‐logistic	3	−63.31	132.62	2.85	1.66	5.21	Yes	No
Log‐probit	3	−61.34	128.68	5.84	4.06	8.24	Yes	Yes
Weibull	3	−63.19	132.38	2.88	1.69	5.11	Yes	No
Gamma	3	−61.35	128.70	5.97	4.02	7.95	Yes	Yes
Two‐stage	3	−61.95	129.90	5.07	3.98	6.95	Yes	No

AIC: Akaike information criterion; BMD: benchmark dose; BMDL: benchmark dose lower confidence limit; BMDU: benchmark dose upper confidence limit.