Table 6: Parameter estimates showing the effects of the race/ethnicity, age, and sex (gender) variables on the reported tuberculosis cases using poisson regression model.

                                                                                                                      95% Wald Confidence

                                                                                                                                          Interval for Exp(B)               

Parameter

B

Sig.

Exp(B)

Lower

Upper

(Intercept)

3.583

.000

35.969

34.570

37.425

American Indian or Alaska Native, non-Hispanic

36.445a

.

1.487E-

16

.000

.000

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic

- 6.771

.000

.001

.001

.003

Multi-racial, non-Hispanic

- 3.681

.000

.025

.021

.031

Asian, non-Hispanic

.610

.000

1.840

1.782

1.899

Hispanic or Latino

.739

.000

2.095

2.031

2.161

Black or African American, non- Hispanic

.891

.000

2.437

2.364

2.512

White, non-Hispanic

0b

.

1

.

.

Reported Age in Years

.277

.000

1.319

1.311

1.327

Reported Sex (gender)

.441

.000

1.555

1.526

1.584

(Scale)

1c