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Table 5 Comparison of gamma and Inverse Gaussian shared frailty model with different baseline distributions

From: Time to first antenatal care visit among pregnant women in Ethiopia: secondary analysis of EDHS 2016; application of AFT shared frailty models

Information criteria

Models

Frailty distributions

 

No frailty

Gamma shared frailty

Inverse Gaussian shared frailty

AIC

Exponential

6338.547

6260.358

6259.905

Weibull

5782.508

5207.318

5190.444

Lognormal

5668.414

5446.669

5425.664

Log logistic

5908.365

5789.093

5788.304

BIC

Exponential

6491.496

6419.679

6419.226

Weibull

5941.83

5373.013

5356.138

Lognormal

5827.736

5612.364

5591.358

Log logistic

6067.686

5954.787

5953.998