. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2013 Mar 27;0:27–37. doi: 10.1016/j.sste.2013.03.002

Table 1.

Available, unavailable and kriged breast cancer death counts from 1989 to 2004.

	Observed			Kriged^†
Year	Total	Available	Unavailable	N₁	N₂	Δ (%)
1989	40529	28921	11608	12660	41581	2.6
1990	41088	29200	11888	12617	41817	1.8
1991	41208	29324	11884	12675	41999	1.9
1992	40761	28743	12018	12341	41084	0.8
1993	41383	29338	12045	12837	42175	1.9
1994	41293	29889	11404	12139	42028	1.8
1995	41437	29845	11592	12185	42030	1.4
1996	40806	29353	11453	11909	41262	1.1
1997	39684	28547	11137	11574	40121	1.1
1998	39426	28174	11252	11801	39975	1.4
1999	38984	27904	11080	11742	39646	1.7
2000	39678	28295	11383	12020	40315	1.6
2001	39156	28009	11147	11699	39708	1.4
2002	39321	28018	11303	11710	39728	1.0
2003	39390	29039	10351	10878	39917	1.3
2004	38778	28589	10189	10487	39076	0.8

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N₁ = number of kriged breast cancer deaths; N₂ = total number of breast cancer deaths after kriging; Δ = the percent difference between the total observed breast cancer deaths and the number after kriging,