Table 2 |
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Maternal and familial characteristics by cluster estimation method and type |
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| Methods |
Filtering Sizes or Maximum Spatial Cluster Sizes (miles) |
Significance |
Total Births within Cluster |
Maternal Ethnicity within Cluster |
Average Percentage of Mothers having Some College Education within Cluster |
Average Percentage of Families Below Poverty level |
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| Caucasian |
African American |
Others |
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| Spatial filtering |
0.40 |
≥ 0.95% level |
1,250 |
1.4% |
98.3% |
0.2% |
13.9% |
48.7% |
| 0.50 |
≥ 0.95% level |
2,509 |
2.1% |
97.6% |
0.3% |
16.2% |
40.6% |
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| 0.60 |
≥ 0.95% level |
7,288 |
6.5% |
92.4% |
1.1% |
19.6% |
36.0% |
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| SaTScan |
0.40 |
P1 (most likely) = 0.002 |
141 |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
14.9% |
49.7% |
| P2 (secondary) < 0.05 |
311 |
1.0% |
98.4% |
0.6% |
9.6% |
61.2% |
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| 0.50 |
P1 (most likely) = 0.001 |
184 |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
12.5% |
31.9% |
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| P2 (secondary) < 0.05 |
437 |
5.0% |
93.8% |
1.1% |
16.9% |
34.7% |
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| 0.60 |
P1 (most likely) = 0.001 |
268 |
0.0% |
99.6% |
0.4% |
11.6% |
58.1% |
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| P2 (secondary) < 0.05 |
820 |
3.0% |
96.3% |
0.6% |
13.2% |
43.2% |
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Ozdenerol et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:19 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-4-19 |
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