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Table 1 Results of local cluster analysis of mortality rate and risk maps. Number of counties classified as significant spatial clusters or outliers for breast and pancreatic cancers on the original mortality rate maps, kriged risk maps, and on average over the 500 simulated risk maps.

From: Geostatistical analysis of disease data: visualization and propagation of spatial uncertainty in cancer mortality risk using Poisson kriging and p-field simulation

Maps

HH cluster

LL cluster

HL Outlier

LH outlier

Breast cancer

    

Mortality rates

20

39

2

1

Risk estimates

35

50

0

0

Simulation

37.2

48.2

0.18

0.07

Pancreatic cancer

    

Mortality rates

5

16

7

0

Risk estimates

42

60

0

0

Simulation

44.5

51.0

0.24

0.08