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Table 1 Selection of maximum spatial window size in 81 recent publications

From: Using Gini coefficient to determining optimal cluster reporting sizes for spatial scan statistics

Maximum spatial window size

<5 %

10 %

15 %

25 %

30 %

50 %

Multiple maxima

Distance based

Not specified

Total

# of pub.

5

3

1

5

1

22

8

13

23

81

% of pub.

6

4

1

6

1

27

10

16

28

100

  1. Using Google Scholar, we ran a search of publications with both words “SaTScan” and “cancer” published during 2015 and yielded 156 results. Restricting the search to scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals in English, we found a total of 81 papers using the SaTScan™ software (www.satscan.org). This table summarizes the maximum spatial window size (MSWS) used in these 81 papers. 8 papers (10 %) erroneously (see reason in “Maximum spatial window size of reported clusters” section) used multiple MSWS ranging from 2 to 4 choices, with 50 % always included as one of them
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International Journal of Health Geographics

ISSN: 1476-072X