Table 3.

Male space-time analyses. Male colorectal cancer incidence statistics for the space-time analyses, Massachusetts, 1995–1998.

	High			Low
	1	2	3	A	B	C
Time Frame	95–98	95–98	96–98	95–98	95–98	95–98
No Covariates
Observed	783	39	348	331	489	76
Expected	615.0	12.0	252.6	476.5	609.2	129.5
Relative Risk	1.27	3.24	1.38	0.70	0.80	0.59
p-value	< 0.0001	0.0003	0.0016	< 0.0001	0.0205	0.0409
Urbanicity
Observed	767	*	110	199†	*	*
Expected	619.8	*	62.7	298.2†	*	*
Relative Risk	1.24	*	1.75	0.667†	*	*
p-value	0.0002	*	0.0098	< 0.0001†	*	*
SES
Observed	783	39	348	331	350	*
Expected	626.6	12.6	252.3	494.4	465.1	*
Relative Risk	1.25	3.11	1.38	0.67	0.75	*
p-value	< 0.0001	0.0007	0.0011	< 0.0001	0.0015	*
SES & Urbanicity
Observed	755	*	*	199†	*	*
Expected	629.8	*	*	304.7†	*	*
Relative Risk	1.20	*	*	0.65†	*	*
p-value	0.0438	*	*	< 0.0001†	*	*

*Area not significant for this analysis.

† The time frame for this area in these particular analyses was 96–98