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Table 3 A comparison of the MLF method, NNG method, Duczmal's SA method, Tango's FlexScan method, and Kulldorff's SaTScan method using the benchmark data

From: Detection of arbitrarily-shaped clusters using a neighbor-expanding approach: A case study on murine typhus in South Texas

 

MLF

NGG

SA

FlexScan

SaTScan

     

Circular

Elliptic

Population

29,535,210

Total case

58,943

Observed #

17,002

17,743

15,122

6,980

21,039

15,122

Expected #

14,166

15,383

12,988

6,005

19,734

12,988

LLR

237.24

85.97

227.11

84.11

44.95

44.71

p-value

0.001

0.001

0.001

0.001

0.01

0.001

  1. Note: # means number; LLR means log-likelihood ratio.
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International Journal of Health Geographics

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