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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)