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Table 2 Results of SaTScan tests that allow overlap among identified statistically significant clusters.

From: A procedure to characterize geographic distributions of rare disorders in cohorts

Study Region

Units of analysis

Highly significant clusters, p ≤ 0.01

Significant clusters, 0.01 < p ≤ 0.05

Maximum Relative Risk

Accepted contributing clusters

  

Count

Population range

Count

Population

  

RC A

Set 11

3

8919, 25863

0

n.a.

2.27

2

 

Set 22

2

16390, 27967

0

n.a.

1.91

1

 

Points3

3

5, 7569

1

19963

2.74

2

RC B

Set 11

0

n.a.

1

14197

1.48

0

 

Set 22

0

n.a.

0

n.a.

n.a.

0

 

Points3

0

n.a.

1

9

63.66

0

  1. 1 Maximum unit population of 1,000.
  2. 2 Maximum unit population of 2,000.
  3. 3 Point analysis is only done with SaTScan
  4. Accepted contributing clusters have a p ≤ 0.05, RR ≥ 1.7 and birth population ≥ 1000.
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International Journal of Health Geographics

ISSN: 1476-072X