title: [Interprovincial variations in mortality from cancer: factorial and cluster analyses].
abstract: Cancer mortality rates among males, for sixteen sites in the fifty Spanish provinces were analyzed using two data reduction techniques, factor and cluster analysis. Five independent underlying factors were identified by factor analysis which appear to influence cancer mortality patterns. Cluster analysis aggregated provinces into different groups using these factor scores as the clustering criteria. Each of the groups thus defined a distinctive profile of site-specific cancer mortality rates.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Alicante.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cayuela Domínguez
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Lacalle Remigio
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gili
mesh_terms: D016000:Cluster Analysis; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D013030:Spain
vernacular_title: Variaciones interprovinciales en la mortalidad por cáncer: análisis factorial y de clusters.