ANALYSIS OF MINNESOTA COLON AND RECTUM CANCER POINT PATTERNS WITH SPATIAL AND NONSPATIAL COVARIATE INFORMATION.

ABSTRACT: Colon and rectum cancer share many risk factors, and are often tabulated together as "colorectal cancer" in published summaries. However, recent work indicating that exercise, diet, and family history may have differential impacts on the two cancers encourages analyzing them separately, so that corresponding public health interventions can be more efficiently targeted. We analyze colon and rectum cancer data from the Minnesota Cancer Surveillance System from 1998-2002 over the 16-county Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul) metro and exurban area. The data consist of two marked point patterns, meaning that any statistical model must account for randomness in the observed locations, and expected positive association between the two cancer patterns. Our model extends marked spatial point patter

SUBMITTER: Liang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2857924 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature