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. 2020 Nov 2;3(11):e2027591.
doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.27591.

Neighborhood Racial Composition and Gun Homicides

Chaeyoung Cheon  1 , Yuzhou Lin  1 , David J Harding  2 , Wei Wang  1 , Dylan S Small  1
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Neighborhood Racial Composition and Gun Homicides

Chaeyoung Cheon et al. JAMA Netw Open. .

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines disparities in gun homicide rates among neighborhoods of different racial composition for fixed levels of socioeconomic status.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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Figure.
Figure.. Deprivation Index and Estimated Mean Incidence Rate of Gun Homicide Deaths
Panel A shows box plots of deprivation index in US Census tracts with different ranges of proportion Black residents. Horizontal lines within boxes denote medians, tops and bottoms of boxes denote 75th and 25th percentiles, error bars denote 1.5 interquartile ranges beyond the 75th and 25th percentiles, and dots denote outliers. Panel B shows a perspective plot for mean incidence rates per 1000 people per year from 2014 to 2018 (z-axis) by a US Census tract deprivation index level (y-axis) and proportion Black residents (x-axis) from the generalized additive model (GAM).
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