Trends in Incidence of Two Major Subtypes of Liver and Bile Duct Cancer: Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cholangiocarcinoma in Songkhla, Southern Thailand, 1989-2030

Table 3

Akaike information criterion values for the age-period, age-cohort, and age-period-cohort models against the age-drift model.^‡

Model	Hepatocellular carcinoma		Cholangiocarcinoma
	Male	Female	Male	Female
Age-period	1520.5^†	1522.4	1527.6	1519.5
Age-cohort	1520.6	1522.3^†	1527.7	1519.5
Age-period-cohort	1521.0	1524.4	1523.8^†	1517.3^†

The best fitting model based on the Akaike information criterion.
^‡Relative values that weight the goodness-of-fit of the model to empirical data.