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. 2010 Mar 23;4(3):e640. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000640

Table 6. Nearest neighbor analysis for spatial association.

Household Attribute k = 2* k = 3 k = 4 k = 5
Antigen positive by ICT test 0.042 0.005 0.004 0.014
Antibody positive by Bm14 test 0.003 0.104 0.205 0.357
Non-compliant 0.382 0.267 0.245 0.105

*Nearest neighbor analysis of spatial association by household. A household was considered positive if there is one positive individual in the household. k = the number of nearest neighbors. Significant test results indicate clustering of the tested variable. A Simes correction is used to control for the type I error rate for multiple testing. Highlighted results are significant at a Simes correction level using an alpha  = 0.05.

159 households out of the 180 households sampled were used in this analysis due participants refusing to be tested for LF. This led to households with incomplete data, which were excluded from the analysis.