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Table 2 Number of significant zip codes for the different types of cluster/outliers and neutral models. Results are reported for female lung cancer. Numbers between parentheses indicate zip codes that have similar classification under the reference Model I (CSR). Summary statistics for the p-values are also provided.

From: Accounting for regional background and population size in the detection of spatial clusters and outliers using geostatistical filtering and spatial neutral models: the case of lung cancer in Long Island, New York

 

Neutral Model Type

 

Model I

Model II

Model III

Model IV

Model V

Model VI

High-High

7

0(0)

4(2)

10(5)

0(0)

3(2)

High-Low

1

0(0)

2(0)

0(0)

0(0)

1(0)

Low-High

2

0(0)

4(0)

2(2)

0(0)

1(0)

Low-Low

18

1(0)

2(2)

31(18)

4(4)

6(4)

P-value

      

Mean

0.178

0.230

0.405

0.166

0.237

0.394

CV

85.9%

62.5%

71.3%

95.3%

62.2%

76.9%