Identifying geographic areas with high disease rates: when do confidence intervals for rates and a disease cluster detection method agree?

Table 2 Clustering results for each RHA (i). An asterisk (*) denotes significant clusters at the 5% level, unadjusted for multiple testing.

i	k _i	ℓ	Nearest ℓ Neighbours		_i:ℓ	p-value
1	68	1	2	84	70.818	0.647
2	39	1	5	45	42.335	0.717
3	31	1	4	233	265.289	1.000
4	368	4	3, 5, 6, 1	382	384.396	0.805
5	25	1	4	235	261.312	1.000
6	87	1	9	104	69.793	0.026*
7	46	1	9	46	42.273	0.303
8	43	1	6	107	85.914	1.000
9	19	0		22	12.047	0.039*
10	326	3	9,7,6	355	317.257	0.319
11	40	1	10	244	243.368	1.000
12	53	1	10	261	252.376	1.000
13	44	2	14, 11	45	61.504	0.992
14	10	1	13	28	35.373	1.000
15	16	0		17	10.008	0.049*
16	20	1	17	20	22.379	0.721
17	14	1	16	20	22.379	0.977

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