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

Table 4

Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) of a simulation study for a population of size 500 observations and also with the shape parameter of size 0.5.

	Cure rate
	0%		15%		30%
Model without interaction
Censoring rate
40%	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP
	1856.18	1861.86	2494.85	2546.09	2729.86	2778.33
60%	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP
	1066.41	1080.39	1641.47	1638.89	1646.18	1707.90
80%	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP
	457.14	477.88	814.69	851.95	848.36	874.43
Model with interaction
Censoring rate
40%	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP
	3090.44	2751.21	3153.18	2911.67	3458.61	3220.91
60%	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP
	1801.99	1641.78	1825.50	1674.54	1989.8	1869.79
80%	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP	PMCM	MoBRP
	752.21	652.69	770.28	654.37	772.32	672.06