Continuous Rural-Urban Coding for Cancer Disparity Studies: Is It Appropriate for Statistical Analysis?

Background: The dichotomization or categorization of rural-urban codes, as nominal variables, is a prevailing paradigm in cancer disparity studies. The paradigm represents continuous rural-urban transition as discrete groups, which results in a loss of ordering information and landscape continuum, a...

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Autores principales: Yaghjyan, Lusine, Cogle, Christopher R., Deng, Guangran, Yang, Jue, Jackson, Pauline, Hardt, Nancy, Hall, Jaclyn, Mao, Liang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6466258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30917515
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16061076

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6466258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30917515
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16061076

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