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. 2023 Jan 6:12:1055655.
doi: 10.3389/fonc.2022.1055655. eCollection 2022.

Multivariate analysis in data science for the geospatial distribution of the breast cancer mortality rate in Colombia

Carlos Rubio  1 , Miguel Alfaro  2 , Armando Mejia-Giraldo  1 , Guillermo Fuertes  2   3 , Rodolfo Mosquera  4 , Manuel Vargas  2
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Multivariate analysis in data science for the geospatial distribution of the breast cancer mortality rate in Colombia

Carlos Rubio et al. Front Oncol. .

Abstract

This research is framed in the area of biomathematics and contributes to the epidemiological surveillance entities in Colombia to clarify how breast cancer mortality rate (BCM) is spatially distributed in relation to the forest area index (FA) and circulating vehicle index (CV). In this regard, the World Health Organization has highlighted the scarce generation of knowledge that relates mortality from tumor diseases to environmental factors. Quantitative methods based on geospatial data science are used with cross-sectional information from the 2018 census; it's found that the BCM in Colombia is not spatially randomly distributed, but follows cluster aggregation patterns. Under multivariate modeling methods, the research provides sufficient statistical evidence in terms of not rejecting the hypothesis that if a spatial unit has high FA and low CV, then it has significant advantages in terms of lower BCM.

Keywords: breast cancer; data science; georeferencing; spatial clusters; spatial distribution.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Spatial dispersion of the FA index in Colombia - 2018. The spatial units were divided into six uniform intervals in terms of FA values. Between parentheses is the number of spatial units with FA value in the corresponding interval.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Spatial dispersion of the CV index in Colombia – 2018. The spatial units were divided into six uniform intervals in terms of CV values. Between parentheses is the number of spatial units with CV value in the corresponding interval.
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Figure 3
Univariate spatial analysis of BCM and bivariate of W_BCM against each regressor.
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