Figure 5

Evaluate reliability visualization by comparing reliability maps. Top: a reliability map with another set of eight SaTScan runs (5%, 7%, 9%, 11%, 19%, 29%, 39%, 49%). This set of eight runs offer approximately same scales at the previous eight runs (4%, 6%, 8%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, and 50%) that produces the reliability visualization in Figure 4. For illustration purposes, we carefully draw circles (A, C, D, E, F, G, H) that approximately match the corresponding clusters in Figure 4. As compared to Figure 4, the location and size of most core clusters (in dark green) remain relatively stable in Figure 5(top). Bottom: a map that shows the different in reliability score between the Figure 5(top) and Figure 4(top). Areas in light yellow (e.g., marked as #1) show no difference in reliability score. Areas in yellow (e.g., #2) show a difference of '0.125', and areas in light green (e.g., #3 and #4) show a difference of '0.25'.