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

Table 3.

Relative risks of breast cancer mortality in high-risk counties compared with the other counties, calculated by Eq.(2). Significance was defined 95% credible interval of the spatial effect in that a county had a strictly positive credible interval.

	White		African American

Age	RR	95% CI	RR	95% CI
40-49	2.03	(1.97, 2.08)	2.54	(2.38, 2.69)
50-59	1.70	(1.68, 1.74)	2.46	(2.33, 2.59)
60-69	1.55	(1.53, 1.57)	2.24	(2.13, 2.36)
70+	1.17	(1.16, 1.18)	1.72	(1.69, 1.75)