International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 2 Weighted Tobit Results for Log(1 + Percentage of Late-Stage Cancer Cases)

From: Determinants of delayed detection of cancers in Texas Counties in the United States of America

	Breast			Colorectal
	Estimate	SE	p	Estimate	SE	p
Intercept	3.190	0.227	<.0001	3.949	0.122	<.0001
WI	0.016	0.012	0.189	0.006	0.007	0.3573
Log %Hispanic	−0.025	0.016	0.1244	−0.027	0.009	0.0018
Physician Supply	−0.432	0.105	<.0001	−0.088	0.057	0.1205
Log %Uninsured	0.205	0.085	0.0158	0.137	0.046	0.0028
Intercept	3.729	0.039	<.0001	4.308	0.021	<.0001
WI	0.037	0.009	<.0001	0.020	0.005	<.0001
Log %Hispanic	0.002	0.012	0.8379	−0.009	0.006	0.1553
Physician Supply	−0.402	0.106	0.0001	−0.068	0.057	0.2345
	Lung-Bronchial			Prostate
Intercept	3.610	0.079	<.0001	2.626	0.374	<.0001
WI	0.017	0.004	<.0001	0.045	0.020	0.0279
Log %Hispanic	−0.064	0.006	<.0001	−0.025	0.027	0.349
Physician Supply	−0.272	0.037	<.0001	−0.598	0.173	0.0006
Log %Uninsured	0.204	0.030	<.0001	0.127	0.140	0.3646
Intercept	4.147	0.015	<.0001	2.960	0.065	<.0001
WI	0.038	0.003	<.0001	0.058	0.014	<.0001
Log %Hispanic	−0.037	0.004	<.0001	−0.008	0.019	0.6702
Physician Supply	−0.243	0.040	<.0001	−0.580	0.173	0.0008
	Female Genital system
Intercept	2.642	0.411	<.0001
WI	−0.031	0.022	0.1636
Log %Hispanic	−0.011	0.029	0.7216
Physician Supply	0.212	0.191	0.2684
Log %Uninsured	0.382	0.154	0.013
Intercept	3.649	0.072	<.0001
WI	0.009	0.016	0.5798
Log %Hispanic	0.041	0.021	0.0573
Physician Supply	0.268	0.192	0.1636

The blank row within each cancer type separates the two sets of parameter estimates in the presence and absence of % uninsured, respectively.

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