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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Apr 24.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Stat Data Anal. 2008 Mar 15;52(7):3697–3708. doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.12.012

Table 2.

Description of variables used in cancer-control data analysis.

Variable Categories Percentage Missing % Latent Variables
Final
Diagnosis
Yes
No
55.1
44.9
0.0 zi;1
(reference)
Patient
Language
Spanish
Other
61.0
39.0
63.3 zi;2
(reference)
Ethnicity Hispanic
Non-Hispanic
85.0
15.0
36.2 zi;3
(reference)
Age at
Referral
< 40
40–49
≥ 50
26.3
31.5
42.2
2.8 (reference)
zi;4
zi;5
Type of
Referring
Clinic
Breast and Tumor Clinic
Emergency and Medical Walk-in
Other
35.4
22.4
42.2
18.5 zi;6
zi;7
(reference)
Working
Situation
Full-time
Part-time
Unemployed
Homemaker
18.4
20.0
23.6
38.1
36.0 zi;8
zi;9
zi;10
(reference)