Table 4 Sensitivity and PPV of the secondary-cluster and the proposed procedures in the simulation study (five clusters with 33 regions)
From: Detecting multiple spatial disease clusters: information criterion and scan statistic approach
|  | Detected regions (avg) | Sen (avg) | Sen = 1 (/1000) | PPV (avg) | PPV = 1 (/1000) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
S2 (five clusters): RR = 1.5 | |||||
 SCP | 34.6 | 1.000 | 0.994 | 0.954 | 0.240 |
 Proposed | 34.8 | 1.000 | 0.996 | 0.950 | 0.232 |
S3 (five clusters): RR = 1.3 | |||||
 SCP | 33.8 | 0.901 | 0.510 | 0.884 | 0.042 |
 Proposed | 37.6 | 0.992 | 0.921 | 0.874 | 0.022 |
S4 (five clusters): RR = 1.2 | |||||
 SCP | 19.2 | 0.479 | 0.009 | 0.826 | 0.095 |
 Proposed | 33.2 | 0.815 | 0.272 | 0.816 | 0.014 |
S5 (five clusters): RR = {1.6, 1.3, 1.4, 1.3, 1.2} | |||||
 SCP | 28.7 | 0.806 | 0.043 | 0.930 | 0.177 |
 Proposed | 35.2 | 0.961 | 0.647 | 0.905 | 0.063 |
S6 (single cluster): RR = 1.3 | |||||
 SCP | 12.0 | 1.000 | 0.999 | 0.930 | 0.446 |
 Proposed | 13.1 | 1.000 | 0.999 | 0.873 | 0.374 |
S7 (single cluster): RR = 1.2 | |||||
 SCP | 11.6 | 0.909 | 0.851 | 0.875 | 0.205 |
 Proposed | 12.7 | 0.912 | 0.855 | 0.822 | 0.173 |