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	—	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	—	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.