A comparative analysis of aspatial statistics for detecting racial disparities in cancer mortality rates

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Goovaerts, Pierre ^a   Meliker, Jaymie R ^a   Jacquez, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACIAL DISPARITY;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE TUMOR; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; ROC CURVE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK; ROC CURVE; SAMPLE SIZE; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548503416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-6-32     Document Type: Article

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