Estimator | Breast cancer | Cervix cancer | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Mean | Variance | Kernel weight | Mean | Variance | Kernel weight |
Observed rates | 27.31 | 14.99 | 1.00 | 4.02 | 2.02 | 1.00 |
Population-weighted average | 28.61 | 5.89 | 0.03 | 3.61 | 0.50 | 0.03 |
Global Empirical Bayes | 28.65 | 4.44 | 0.68 | 3.63 | 0.61 | 0.66 |
Local Empirical Bayes | 28.02 | 7.54 | 0.55 | 3.83 | 0.91 | 0.61 |
Poisson kriging | 27.62 | 8.00 | 0.51 | 3.96 | 0.95 | 0.60 |