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I think what it means, and the graph is unclear, is that of the A-A women who developed lung cancer, 53% don't smoke. It's P(non-smoking | lung cancer, ethnici
by x0x0 3y ago
I think what it means, and the graph is unclear, is that of the A-A women who developed lung cancer, 53% don't smoke.
It's P(non-smoking | lung cancer, ethnicity)
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- ahepp 3y agoI think your interpretation is correct, but I'm not convinced it's just a matter of ambiguity. It looks to me like the caption on the graph is stating something that simply isn't true.
- alphairys 3y agoYou're right on the graph. The graph in the article is very misleading, especially the N=4000 non-smokers. If you look the table in the source paper, 53.4% of 296 Asian American Female (Single Group) lung-cancer patients are non-smokers. Also, share of lung-cancer patients being non-smoker vs. smoker being higher in Asian american females, does not necessarily mean they're more likely to get lung-cancer. This assumes the non-smoking vs. smoking population is the same in teh general population, which it isn't.
- erehweb 3y agoCorrect, looking at the original document https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8530225/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8530225/ - search for 53.4 in that