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EXERCISES 653<br />

Smoking_status * Obsesity_status * Stratum Cross-Tabulation<br />

Count<br />

Obesity status<br />

Stratum<br />

Cases<br />

Noncases<br />

Total<br />

55 and under Smoking_status Smoked throughout 21 11 32<br />

Never smoked 16 6 22<br />

Total<br />

37 17 54<br />

Over 55 Smoking_status Smoked throughout 50 14 64<br />

Never smoked 18 6 24<br />

Total<br />

68 20 88<br />

Tests of Conditional Independence<br />

Asymp. Sig.<br />

Chi-Squared df (2-sided)<br />

Cochran's .025 1 .875<br />

Mantel-Haenszel .002 1 .961<br />

Mantel–Haenszel Common Odds Ratio Estimate<br />

Estimate<br />

.938<br />

In(Estimate) .064<br />

Std. Error of In(Estimate)<br />

.412<br />

Asymp. Sig. (2-sided)<br />

.876<br />

Asymp. 95% confidence Common Odds Lower Bound .418<br />

Interval Ratio Upper Bound 2.102<br />

In(Common) Lower Bound .871<br />

Odds Ratio) Upper Bound .743<br />

FIGURE 12.7.3 SPSS output for Example 12.7.3.<br />

EXERCISES<br />

12.7.1 Davy et al. (A-19) reported the results of a study involving survival from cervical cancer. The<br />

researchers found that among subjects younger than age 50, 16 of 371 subjects had not survived for<br />

1 year after diagnosis. In subjects age 50 or older, 219 of 376 had not survived for 1 year after<br />

diagnosis. Compute the relative risk of death among subjects age 50 or older. Does it appear from<br />

these data that older subjects diagnosed as having cervical cancer are prone to higher mortality<br />

rates?

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