A Comparison between Cure Model and Recursive Partitioning: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Iranian Female with Breast Cancer

Table 2

Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) of a simulation study for a population of size 500 observations and also with the shape parameter of size 2.

	Cure rate
	0%		15%		30%
Model without interaction
Censoring rate
40%	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP
	751.2	787.7	862.9	864.5	1151.3	1295.7
60%	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP
	472.7	498.1	551.6	590.5	665.7	694.8
80%	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP
	233.9	245.8	272.8	288.5	315.7	330.2
Model with interaction
Censoring rate
40%	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP
	1287.9	1019.5	1384.3	1268.8	1582.7	1573.7
60%	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP
	822.8	747.6	841.2	739.1	907.2	823.6
80%	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP
	384.3	323.5	382.5	331.7	394.9	362.4