Cluster of liver cancer and immigration: A geographic analysis of incidence data for Ontario 1998–2002

Table 2 Overall spatial correlation for liver cancer across 35 health regions in Ontario – Hierarchical Poisson models

	Variables Adjusted	Variance (SE) for RRE^a	Moran's I^b (p value)	Geary's C^b (p value)
Model 1	Age, sex	0.086 (0.028)	0.231 (0.006)	0.611 (0.002)
Model 2	+ geolocation	0.080 (0.027)	0.182 (0.020)	0.677 (0.010)
Model 3	+ immigration	0.049 (0.021)	0.062 (0.198)	0.818 (0.094)
Model 4	+ selected factors^c	0.050 (0.022)	0.073 (0.172)	0.810 (0.085)

^a Variance and standard error (SE) for regional random effects (RRE), all significant at the level p < 0.01;
^b Calculated from estimated regional random effects.
^c Including smoking, alcohol drinking, exercise, obesity, consumption of fruits and vegetables, diabetes, education and income.