Table 1.

Average type I and type II error rate of simulated hospitals with SIR values ranging from 0.5 to 1.5, using our proposed method

True SIR	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.9	1.0
Type I Error Rate	0.0$\%$	0.0$\%$	0.0$\%$	0.0$\%$	0.003$\%$	2.5$\%$
True SIR	1.1	1.2	1.3	1.4	1.5
Type II Error Rate	70.9$\%$	20.0$\%$	1.7$\%$	0.01$\%$	0.0$\%$