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Data analysis for study validating the process platform for the LD-Imputation methodology and also conducting the first biomedical analysis
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Hispanics #20

Open rpietro opened 12 years ago

rpietro commented 12 years ago

we don't have the variable for hispanics and without that i can't align the two datasets: single variable race in NIS contains whether people are or not hispanic, while for SEER there are two variables. is that something you could talk with Igor?

mworni commented 12 years ago

the issue is that in SEER-Medicare, the ethnicity (hispanic - non hispanic) is coded independent of race (white, black,...) while in NIS, hispanic is included in the variable race as an independent "outcome". I think we have to recode ethnicity in SEER-Medicare together with race (if hispanic==YES, then hispanic, if hispanic==NO and race==white - then white,...)

does this make sense?