A detailed spatial analysis on contrasting cancer incidence patterns in thyroid and lung cancer in Toronto women

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Estimates of relative risk (posterior medians) and 95 % posterior credible intervals for risk ratios of inter-quartile ranges, range parameters φ (in km) and standard deviation parameters σ of the residual spatial variation^a

Variable	Thyroid cancer relative risk estimate (0.025 qt, 0.975qt)^a	Lung cancer relative risk estimate (0.025 qt, 0.975qt)^a
Median household income (Log-transformed, Canadian dollars)	0.97 (0.89, 1.06)	0.94 (0.86, 1.02)
Asian ancestry	1.21 (1.10, 1.33)	0.80 (0.71, 0.90)
African ancestry	0.95 (0.889, 1.01)	0.98 (0.91, 1.04)
Recent immigrant	0.90 (0.84, 0.98)	1.09 (1.01, 1.18)
Range (km)	3.31 (1.142, 9.30)	7.20 (3.63, 14.25)
Standard Deviation	0.15 (0.09, 0.28)	0.21 (0.15, 0.32)

Legend: ^aThe parameters in Table 1 for yearly household income, Asian ancestry, African ancestry, and recent immigrants (ie. immigrants within the prior 5 years) show estimates and 95 % credible intervals for relative risks, or exp(β), associated with each of the explanatory variables. These values are risk ratios for inter-quartile ranges, or the ratio between risks for regions in the 75th percentile and the 25th percentile for each variable, on the natural scale with 1.0 indicating no effect

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