Geographic boundaries in breast, lung and colorectal cancers in relation to exposure to air toxics in Long Island, New York

Table 1 Colorectal cancer, subboundary statistics.

Boundaries	Statistic	Observed	Expected	P↑	P↓
Female colorectal cancer	Ns	46	37	0.032	0.998
	Lmean	2.130	2.687	0.988	0.032
	Lmax	7.000	12.257	0.996	0.048
Male colorectal cancer	Ns	39	43	0.860	0.184
	Lmean	2.513	2.286	0.184	0.860
	Lmax	10.000	10.313	0.528	0.628
OPR for colorectal cancer	Ns	123	266	1.000	0.004
	Lmean	5.407	2.504	0.004	1.000
	Lmax	60.000	17.406	0.004	1.000

In this and all subsequent tables, P↑ indicates the upper tail p-value and P↓ indicates the lower tail p-value.

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