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Table 4 Final logistic model showing socioeconomic and demographic predictors of high risk myocardial infarction mortality clusters

From: Neighborhood disparities in stroke and myocardial infarction mortality: a GIS and spatial scan statistics approach

Variable

Coefficient

LRT*

95% Confidence Interval

  

p-value

 

Constant

-6.541

 

-8.865, -4.220

Proportion of Pop with < High School education

14.562

 

8.963, 20.610

Geography

 

0.05

 

Rural

Referent

 

-

Suburban

1.558

 

0.205, 2.911

Urban

1.544

 

-0.033, 3.122

Proportion of Blacks

 

0.14

 

< 0.02

Referent

 

-

> 0.02 - ≤ 0.05

0.306

 

-0.844, 1.456

> 0.05 - ≤ 0.10

-0.991

 

-2.950, 0.968

> 0.10

-1.494

 

-3.231, 0.244

Gender

 

0.03

 

Proportion of Male Population ≤ 0.50

Referent

 

-

Proportion of Male Population > 0.50

1.024

 

0.086, 1.962

  1. LRT (Likelihood ratio test) p-value = test of significance of each group of dummy variables (belonging to one categorical variable). Thus, this tests the statistical significance of the variable as a whole (all parameter estimates of the categories of variable in the model).
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