ASSESSMENT OF TEMPORAL TRENDS OF MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS INCIDENCE USING MULTIVARIABLE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

The article presents the results of the assessment of the trends of malignant neoplasms incidence in Russian regions using multivariable statistics. The study was performed using cluster analysis and panel data models for the data on cancer incidence for all 78 Russian regions for the period from 2005 to 2015. RStudio package was used for all calculations. Data on all independent variables were collected from the official state statistics. Cluster analysis and modeling methods taking into account the panel structure of data makes it possible to study associations between environmental indicators and the incidence of cancers or so-called oncoepidemiological process. The proposed method of multivariable analysis of medical and statistical indicators contributes to the field of data processing for medical and environmental monitoring.