Table 2.

Mortality rates for malignant pleural mesothelioma. Age–Period–Cohort analysis. Comparisons of different models.

Model	Men				Women
	AIC	LR Statistic	p Value	DF	AIC	LR Statistic	p Value	DF
Age–period–cohort	834.132	NA	NA	77	783.076	NA	NA	77
Period–cohort	1613.485	801.353	<0.001	88	925.738	164.661	<0.001	88
Age–cohort	841.691	21.559	<0.003	84	783.557	14.481	0.043	84
Age–period	1418.905	622.773	<0.001	96	967.225	222.148	<0.001	96
Cohort	21,078.599	20,282.467	<0.001	96	7049.860	6211.774	<0.001	96
Period	33,583.124	32,810.992	<0.001	108	12,790.662	11,997.016	<0.001	108
Age	3318.674	2538.542	<0.001	104	1207.498	505.611	<0.001	104

AIC: Akaike Information Criterion. LR: Likelihood ratio. NA: not applicable.