Efficient mapping and geographic disparities in breast cancer mortality at the county-level by race and age in the U.S.

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-37

  Chien, Lung Chang ^a   Yu, Hwa Lung ^b   Schootman, Mario ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer mortality; Geographic disparities; Kriging; Markov random fields; Structured additive regression model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876703634     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: 18775853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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