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Table 2 Sensitivity analysis of parameters (spatial/temporal/p value) by location as the number of cases ≥500 per week

From: Online platform for applying space–time scan statistics for prospectively detecting emerging hot spots of dengue fever

Model

Detection duration threshold (weeks)

Spatial (%)/temporal (days)/p value

Mean sensitivity (total elapsed timea (s))

Tainan

Kaohsiung

Reference

2

(25, 14, 0.05)

0.680 (490.10)

0.631 (750.64)

(50, 28, 0.05)

0.580 (1123.61)

0.652 (1305.84)

(25, 14, 0.001)

0.662 (472.80)

0.626 (745.11)

(50, 28, 0.001)

0.578 (1139.66)

0.652 (1196.82)

1

(25, 14, 0.05)

0.705 (453.06)

0.656 (770.58)

(50, 28, 0.05)

0.656 (1077.49)

0.690 (1221.14)

(25, 14, 0.001)

0.689 (479.27)

0.651 (730.03)

(50, 28, 0.001)

0.654 (1079.73)

0.690 (1262.36)

Covariate adjustment

2

(25, 14, 0.05)

0.636 (481.78)

0.629 (777.33)

(50, 28, 0.05)

0.568 (1221.47)

0.661 (1251.64)

(25, 14, 0.001)

0.618 (507.71)

0.629 (745.58)

(50, 28, 0.001)

0.569 (1154.70)

0.661 (1223.97)

1

(25, 14, 0.05)

0.678 (513.56)

0.655 (729.69)

(50, 28, 0.05)

0.645 (1023.12)

0.701 (1365.97)

(25, 14, 0.001)

0.661 (494.28)

0.654 (743.39)

(50, 28, 0.001)

0.644 (1080.50)

0.701 (1296.22)

  1. aTesting environment: Windows Server 2012; Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.4 GHz 4 cores; RAM = 32 GB