Research Article
Bayesian and Frequentist Analytical Approaches Using Log-Normal and Gamma Frailty Parametric Models for Breast Cancer Mortality
Table 1
Descriptive distribution of the breast cancer patients’ characteristics.
| Variable | Frequency | % |
| Marital status | | | Married | 135 | 2.51 | Divorced | 4525 | 84.28 | Single | 318 | 5.92 | Widowed | 391 | 7.28 |
| Sex | | | Female | 5301 | 98.73 | Male | 68 | 1.27 |
| Address code | | | Asir | 253 | 4.71 | Baha | 75 | 1.40 | Eastern | 1099 | 20.47 | Hail | 99 | 1.84 | International | 8 | 0.15 | Jazan | 130 | 2.42 | Jouf | 69 | 1.29 | Madinah | 265 | 4.94 | Makkah | 1412 | 26.30 | Najran | 47 | 0.88 | Northern | 37 | 0.69 | Qassim | 236 | 4.40 | Riyadh | 1524 | 28.39 | Tabuk | 115 | 4.71 |
| Topography | | | C50.0 nipple | 128 | 2.38 | C50.1 central portion | 194 | 3.61 | c50.2 upper-inner | 372 | 6.93 | c50.3 lower inner | 195 | 3.63 | c50.4 upper outer | 1319 | 24.57 | c50.5 lower-outer | 251 | 4.67 | c50.6 axillary tail | 46 | 0.86 | c50.8 overl. lesion | 1037 | 19.31 | c50.9 Breast, NOS | 1827 | 34.03 |
| Grade | | | B-Cell | 11 | 0.20 | Grade I (Well diff) | 399 | 7.43 | Grade II (Mod diff) | 2462 | 45.86 | Grade III (Poor diff) | 2396 | 44.63 | Grade IV (Undiff anaplastic) | 101 | 1.88 |
| Laterality | | | Bilateral invasive | 55 | 1.02 | Left paired site | 2734 | 50.92 | Late | 13 | 0.24 | Right | 2567 | 47.81 |
| Cause of death | | | Cancer | 673 | 12.53 | Not cancer | 4696 | 87.47 |
| Extent | | | Distant metastasis | 911 | 16.97 | Localised | 1649 | 30.71 | Regional | 2809 | 52.32 |
| Status | | | Dead | 708 | 13.19 | Alive | 4661 | 86.81 |
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