The Main Patterns in the Trend Change of Stomach Cancer Incidence amongst Selected African Countries
Table 1
Fit indices for different number of clusters.
Dataset
Number of clusters
AIC
BIC
SSBIC
LRT value
Entropy
Male incidence
1
2020
2057
1998
ā
1.00
2
1993
2041
1965
0.10
0.85
3
1982
2039
1948
0.04
0.89
4
1982
2049
1943
0.75
0.88
5
1975
2052
1929
0.17
0.90
Female incidence
1
1571
1609
1549
ā
1.00
2
1551
1598
1523
0.35
0.94
3
1542
1599
1508
0.26
0.92
4
1534
1601
1494
0.28
0.95
5
1531
1608
1486
0.49
0.91
AIC: Akaike information criterion; BIC: Bayesian information criterion; SSBIC: sample size adjusted Bayesian information criterion; LRT: likelihood ratio test.