Confidence Intervals
Confidence Interval for Ranks of Incidence and Mortality Rates:
Ranking health indices is useful for seeing where a geographic area stands in comparison to other areas.
However, ranks are inherently random and are dependent on the variability of the rates. Providing ranks and
their level of uncertainty (i.e., the confidence intervals) together demonstrates not only the variability of
that area's rate but also the variability of closely ranked areas' rates.
CI*Rank
presents ranked, age-adjusted cancer incidence and
mortality rates by state, county, and special region in the US. The site also presents confidence intervals for
those ranks. Ranked, age-adjusted US mortality rates for other causes of death are also provided, along with
the confidence intervals.
