Fig 1.
Study area with census tracts that contain study patient residential locations in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Table 1.
Variables used in different area-level SES indices using census block group and tract ESRI 2012 demographic and ACS 2009–2013 data.
Table 2.
AIC values in the validation dataset for WQS models with different definitions of the SES index.
Table 3.
SES index weights estimated in the training set for variables using census block group and tract ESRI 2012 demographic data and American Community Survey 2009–2013 data.
Table 4.
Odds ratios estimated in the validation set for variables in models with different SES indices based on ESRI 2012 demographic data and American Community Survey 2009–2013 data.
Fig 2.
SES index for block groups estimated with block group model 1 (BG1) in the training set.