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Table 1 Number of Communes, area and population of the 1895 living zones (LZ) in France.

From: Detection of clusters of a rare disease over a large territory: performance of cluster detection methods

 

Mean

Minimum

Q1

Median

Q3

Maximum

Number of Communes per LZ

19.1

1

7

13

24

556

Area (km2)

282.3

0.4

108.8

193

340.2

3863.2

Total population (1999)

30542.0

270

6219.8

9754.5

17 968

9802327

Population 0-14 years (1999)

5453.7

71

1068

1725

3298

1823195

AL incidence rate

(per 100000 person-years)

40.8

0.0

0.0

36.5

58.6

545.9

Expected cases of AL per LZ (1990-2006)

4.1

0.1

0.8

1.3

2.4

1388.3

  1. AL: childhood acute leukemia. Q1: first quartile. Q3: third quartile