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Table 3 Model diagnostics and comparison

From: Incidence of neonatal mortality and its predictors among live births in Ethiopia: Gompertz gamma shared frailty model

Model

Distribution

Frailty

Theta

AIC

BIC

Deviance (−2LL)

Cox proportion hazard

Unspecified

Unspecified

–

5802

5969

5756

Shared frailty

Gompertz

Gamma

0.39

3757

3946

3704

Shared frailty

Gompertz

Inverse Gaussian

0.44

3757

3946

3704

Shared frailty

Exponential

Gamma

0.51

4211

4393

4160

Shared frailty

Exponential

Inverse Gaussian

0.59

4210

4392

3850

Shared frailty

Weibull

gamma

0.40

3902

4091

3850

Shared frailty

Weibull

Inverse Gaussian

0.60

3902

4091

3850

Shared frailty

Log-normal

gamma

0.40

3878

4067

3826

Shared frailty

Log-normal

Inverse Gaussian

0.45

3910

4012

3932