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Deviance information criterion (DIC) calculated from the Bayesian models for inference on age-specific fertility for the pooled samples of females and males.
The null model corresponds to the commonly used quadratic model, while the alternative is the model in Eq. (1). The model with lowest DIC is highlighted with boldface values.
