Article
TB Incidence in US and Puerto-Rico from 1993 to 2017
Medical Student Research Symposium Abstracts and Posters
Start Date
29-4-2021 7:35 PM
End Date
29-4-2021 7:45 PM
Disciplines
Document Type
Poster
Description
The objective of this project is to test for possible correlation between the trend of Tuberculosis incidence rate in the US and the Tuberculosis incidence rate in PuertoRico from 1993 to 2017. Data from CDC Wonder-Online Tuberculosis InformationSystem and Pearson Correlation test were used to investigate the relationship. Analysis shows a positive association and a significant correlation between TB incidence rate between both region during the 26-year timeframe. This result has the potential for in-depth future research to identify the common variables and causes for the positive correlation.
Citation Information
Bowranigan Tharmalingam and Amber Todd. "TB Incidence in US and Puerto-Rico from 1993 to 2017" (2021) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/amber-todd/30/