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Table 2 Summary of AIC comparison of different epidemiological hypotheses

From: Modeling tuberculosis dynamics with the presence of hyper-susceptible individuals for Ho Chi Minh City from 1996 to 2015

Hypothesis

Assumption

#optimized parameters

AIC – min(AIC)

ß(t)

r relapsed-tb (t)

H1

Constant

Constant

8

1886.96

H2

Time-varying

Constant

9

385.16

H3

Constant

Time-varying

10

1787.5

H4

Time-Varying

Time-Varying

11

0.0

  1. The quantity AIC – min(AIC) of the best hypothesis is zero (in bold)