Table 5 Association rules that have the highest support value for each of the four cancer sites used in the study
From: Socioeconomic inequality of cancer mortality in the United States: a spatial data mining approach
Association Rule | Support%, Confidence%, lift | |
|---|---|---|
a | Lung cancer mortality among white men is high → proportion of whites with low educational attainment is high | 8.955%, 46.45%, 2.32 (72/155) |
b | Colorectal cancer mortality among white men is high → proportion of households with white male householder with no wife present and with no children under the age of 18 years is high | 7.463%, 45.80%, 2.29 (60/131) |
c | Prostate cancer among black men is medium high → proportion of households with black female householder with no husband present and with no children under the age of 18 years is high | 3.731%, 61.22%, 3.06 (30/49) |
d | Breast cancer among black females is high → proportion of households with black female householder with no husband present and with the presence of own children under the age of 18 years in the house is high | 2.861%, 74.19%, 3.59 (23/31) |