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An Evaluation of Multiple Behavioral Risk Factors for Cancer in a Working Class, Multi-Ethnic Population

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: Behavioral risk factors for cancer tend to cluster within individuals, which can compound risk beyond that associated with the individual risk factors alone. There has been increasing attention paid to the prevalence of multiple risk factors (MRF) for cancer, and to the importance of designing interventions that help individuals reduce their risks across multiple behaviors simultaneously. The purpose of this paper is to develop methodology to identify an optimal linear combination of multiple risk factors (score function) which would facilitate evaluation of cancer interventions.

Source: Journal of Data Science

DOI: 10.6339/jds.2006.04(3).267

Authors: Melody S. Goodman, Yi Li, Gary G. Bennett, Anne M. Stoddard, Karen M. Emmons