Saturday, 15 May 2010

Cancer survival



Based on 5-year survival for breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer. From 'Cancer survival in five countries: a worldwide population-based survey (CONCORD)', M. Coleman et al., Lancet Oncology, 2008
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2 comments:

  1. Alice Cook10 January 2011 at 01:31

    The R squared is a bit low, suggesting that the regression only explains 10 percent of the variation in the data.

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  2. Christopher Snowdon18 February 2011 at 03:03

    Agreed. It would be very surprising if increased inequality increased the cancer survival rate at all. The graph is here only to show that cancer survival is not higher in more equal countries, something that some people apparently would not find surprising. The r-squared of .10 is fairly typical of 'correlations' with the other criteria though.

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