Table 3. Sensitivity analysis: successive linear regression analyses of nations with top infant mortality rates and the resultant r-values (2009 data).
Number of nations in regression (n = 30-47) | Cutoff nation | 2009 IMRs | Doses | r-valuea | p-value |
30 | United States | 6.22 | 26 | 0.70 | < .00002 |
31 | Croatia | 6.37 | 19 | 0.66 | .00006 |
32 | Belarus | 6.43 | 16 | 0.57 | .0006 |
33 | Lithuania | 6.47 | 19 | 0.55 | .001 |
34 | Serbia | 6.75 | 19 | 0.52 | .002 |
35 | Poland | 6.80 | 19 | 0.50 | .002 |
36 | Slovakia | 6.84 | 19 | 0.48 | .003 |
37 | Estonia | 7.32 | 19 | 0.46 | .004 |
38 | Chile | 7.71 | 22 | 0.48 | .002 |
39 | Hungary | 7.86 | 16 | 0.41 | .009 |
40 | Costa Rica | 8.77 | 22 | 0.43 | .005 |
41 | Latvia | 8.77 | 19 | 0.41 | .008 |
42 | Kuwait | 8.97 | 19 | 0.39 | .011 |
43 | Ukraine | 8.98 | 19 | 0.37 | .014 |
44 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 9.10 | 19 | 0.36 | .016 |
45 | Cyprus | 9.70 | 21 | 0.37 | .012 |
46 | Russia | 10.56 | 16 | 0.30 | .040 |
47 | Uruguay | 11.32 | 19 | 0.29 | .0504b |