Spatial Clusters of Cancer Mortality in Brazil: A Machine Learning Modeling Approach

• Main Authors: Bruno Casaes Teixeira (Author), Tatiana Natasha Toporcov (Author), Francisco Chiaravalloti-Neto (Author), Alexandre Dias Porto Chiavegatto Filho (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives: Our aim was to test if machine learning algorithms can predict cancer mortality (CM) at an ecological level and use these results to identify statistically significant spatial clusters of excess cancer mortality (eCM).Methods: Age-standardized CM was extracted from the official databases...