Table 2. Goodness of fit of the age-period-cohort models for TC incidence in selected East Asian countries.

Country and model	Males						Females
	Df	Log likelihood	AIC	BIC	P		Df	Log likelihood	AIC	BIC	P
China
Age-period	16	−106.0744800	244.149	275.3689	<0.001		16	−127.8128400	287.6257	318.8456	<0.001
Age-cohort	28	−93.8612580	243.7225	298.3573	<0.001		28	−122.7001800	301.4004	356.0352	<0.001
Period-cohort	19	−109.8479300	257.6959	294.7695	<0.001		19	−139.8723100	317.7446	354.8183	<0.001
Age-period-cohort	22	−93.1195052	4.735366	−74.87492	<0.001		22	−118.6371821	5.716815	−78.3449	<0.001
Japan
Age-period	16	−88.89541	209.7908	241.0107	<0.001		16	−116.57281	265.1456	296.3655	<0.001
Age-cohort	28	−86.81391	229.6278	284.2626	<0.001		28	−117.2104	290.4208	345.0556	<0.001
Period-cohort	19	−87.525932	213.0519	250.1255	<0.001		19	−121.67896	281.3579	318.4316	<0.001
Age-period-cohort	22	−84.7148876	4.412111	−81.75118	<0.001		22	−113.4037423	5.515529	−80.9655	<0.001
Korea
Age-period	16	−127.5541	287.1082	318.3281	<0.001		16	−189.59565	411.1913	442.4112	<0.001
Age-cohort	28	−115.4562	286.9124	341.5472	<0.001		28	−172.58683	401.1737	455.8085	<0.001
Period-cohort	19	−145.46533	328.9307	366.0043	<0.001		19	−310.9721	659.9442	697.0178	<0.001
Age-period-cohort	22	−111.5559307	5.444459	−81.1963	<0.001		22	−155.5877469	7.13799	−69.7996	<0.001

BIC, Bayesian information criterion; AIC, Akaike information criterion.