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Table 3 Comparison of amount of smoothing performed, stratified by size of population

From: Evaluating the effect of neighbourhood weight matrices on smoothing properties of Conditional Autoregressive (CAR) models

Neighbourhood type

RSS

RSS (Areas with low expected count)*

RSS (Areas with high expected count)

Queen-1

91427

91254

173

Queen-2

91349

91176

174

Rook-1

91150

90976

174

Rook-2

90975

90802

173

Distance

88987

88816

171

Weight-1 (1/distance)

88987

88816

171

Weight-2 (1/distance2)

89612

89436

176

Weight-3 (1/distance3)

92666

92490

176

Weight 4 (Gravity)

87510

87330

179

Weight 5 (Entropy)

90550

90378

172

Weight 6 (Density)

87336

87162

174

Weight 7 (Covariate)

79478

79292

185

  1. * Expected count less than median value of 9