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Table 7 Sensitivity to detect clustering by number of extra visits, distance from the hospital, and radius of the simulated cluster.

From: Real time spatial cluster detection using interpoint distances among precise patient locations

  

Distance from the hospital

# extra visits

Cluster radius

5 km

15 km

50 km

10

250 m

15.58

31.04

25.27

 

500 m

14.55

30.59

25.37

 

1 km

12.76

30.31

26.28

 

3 km

5.90

23.90

24.54

25

250 m

68.40

87.27

95.24

 

500 m

66.09

87.91

95.33

 

1 km

58.27

86.81

95.51

 

3 km

26.60

68.86

94.05

40

250 m

91.54

99.45

99.82

 

500 m

90.45

99.63

99.82

 

1 km

88.01

99.63

99.82

 

3 km

53.78

92.31

99.82

  1. The numbers in the cells are the percentage of simulated outbreaks that exceeded the 95th percentile value of M × N (M statistic × number of visits).