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Geographically distributed data should be analyzed with spatial epidemiologic methods
Author(s) -
GarrettMayer Elizabeth
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.32669
Subject(s) - medicine , myeloid leukemia , incidence (geometry) , spatial analysis , cancer incidence , cancer , statistics , demography , environmental health , cartography , geography , physics , mathematics , sociology , optics
Comparisons of crude incidence and mortality rates for acute myeloid leukemia cannot be used to determine whether cancer clusters exist. Geographic data should be analyzed via spatial modeling with appropriate adjustments for known prognostic factors.