Modelling count data: An application to a breast cancer data in Malaysia

Autor: Siti Afiqah Muhamad Jamil, M. Asrul Affendi Abdullah, Y. M. Tengku Mardhiah Tengku Jalal
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: AIP Conference Proceedings.
ISSN: 0094-243X
Popis: Cancer is a disease of cells and virtually affects everyone as it is one of the most common factors that influenced the deaths of people in Malaysia. Breast cancer patient who were diagnosed, varies among institution in Malaysia. A study was conduct to review the deaths of breast cancer based on the breast cancer data in Malaysia. The breast cancer data contains 62 numbers of observations according to the duration of data collected from years 1980 until 2010. The data was collected yearly in Malaysia by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IMHE) on the systematic analysis of collecting the data. There were three variables which comprised the number of deaths of breast cancer, the number of cases of breast cancer and the age group. The dependent variable was the number of deaths of breast cancer, while the independent variable includes the number of cases of breast cancer and the age group which comprised women aged 15-49 and women aged 50-79. The first objective of the study was to determine t...
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