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

BACKGROUND: Our progress towards the goal of eliminating racial health disparities requires methods for assessing the existence, magnitude, and statistical significance of health disparities. In comparing disease rates, we must account for the unreliability of rates computed for small minority popul...

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Autores principales: Goovaerts, Pierre, Meliker, Jaymie R, Jacquez, Geoffrey M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1950701/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17650305
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-6-32