Research Article

Spatial Analysis of County-Level Breast Cancer Mortality in Texas

Table 3

List of breast cancer mortality clusters for non-Hispanic blacks, Hispanics, and other races using Bernoulli model compared to non-Hispanic whites at county level in Texas for the years 2000 to 2008.

ClusterObserved casesExpected CasesRRLLRP value

(a) Non-Hispanic blacks versus non-Hispanic whites
  Most likely cluster25311744.272.63447.78<0.001

(b) Hispanics versus non-Hispanic whites
  Most likely cluster1659607.224.131122.37<0.001
  Secondary cluster510148.273.83430.95<0.001

(c) Other races versus non-Hispanic whites
  Most likely cluster11553.662.7734.75<0.001
  Secondary cluster10168.041.709.360.012
  Not significant cluster103.902.613.470.89

Abbreviations: RR: relative risk; LLR: log-likelihood ratio.