Municipal distribution of breast cancer mortality among women in Spain

BMC Cancer

Table 2 Effect of explanatory variables on breast cancer mortality in women over 49 years of age.

Variable	Conventional Poisson regression model		Bayesian model (Besag-York-Molliè)
	RR	95% Confidence Interval	RR	95% Credibility Interval
Socio-economic index
per 1 unit	1.069	1.053–1.086	1.046	1.033–1.059
Rurality
Change per category¹	0.988	0.975–1.000	0.979	0.972–0.986
% Population >=65
Change per 10%	0.988	0.984–0.993	0.992	0.992–0.995

1 Categories: 0 = > 500.000 inhabitants, 1 = 100.001–500.000, 2 = 50.001–100.000, 3 = 20.001–50.000, 4 = 10.001–20.000, 5 = 5.001–10.000, 6 = 2.001–5.000, 7 = 1.001–2.000, 8 = 501–1.000, 9 = 101–500, 10 = <100 inhabitants.

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