Table 3.
Comparison of amount of smoothing performed, stratified by size of population
| Neighbourhood type | RSS | RSS (Areas with low expected count)* | RSS (Areas with high expected count) |
| Queen-1 | 91427 | 91254 | 173 |
| Queen-2 | 91349 | 91176 | 174 |
| Rook-1 | 91150 | 90976 | 174 |
| Rook-2 | 90975 | 90802 | 173 |
| Distance | 88987 | 88816 | 171 |
| Weight-1 (1/distance) | 88987 | 88816 | 171 |
| Weight-2 (1/distance2) | 89612 | 89436 | 176 |
| Weight-3 (1/distance3) | 92666 | 92490 | 176 |
| Weight 4 (Gravity) | 87510 | 87330 | 179 |
| Weight 5 (Entropy) | 90550 | 90378 | 172 |
| Weight 6 (Density) | 87336 | 87162 | 174 |
| Weight 7 (Covariate) | 79478 | 79292 | 185 |
* Expected count less than median value of 9