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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 21.
Published in final edited form as: Biometrics. 2010 Sep;66(3):783–792. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01323.x

Table 2.

Power calculations of the Weighted Cumulative Geographic Residual Test (CGR) and Weighted Spatial Scan Statistic (SS) for different distributions.

Distribution
Normal DoubleE Logistic Uniform Lognormal Poisson
c CGR SS CGR SS CGR SS CGR SS CGR SS CGR SS
0.5 0.20 0.25 0.14 0.23 0.22 0.25 0.22 0.30 0.17 0.13 0.21 0.19
1.0 0.68 0.88 0.40 0.86 0.66 0.86 0.65 0.90 0.59 0.71 0.56 0.63
1.5 0.96 1.00 0.72 1.00 0.95 1.00 0.96 1.00 0.88 0.99 0.88 0.95
2.0 1.00 1.00 0.94 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.91 1.00 0.98 0.99
3.0 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.92 1.00 1.00 1.00
*

Results for Spatial Scan Statistic were done and reported by Huang et al. (2009).

Model Framework: wi = 1

For Normal, Double Exponential, logistic, and uniform: E(YiZi)=c(2) and Var(YiZi)=1.

For lognormal: E(YiZi)=2+c2 and Var(YiZi)=1.

For Poisson: E(YiZi)=1+c2 and Var(YiZi)=1+c2.

power=11000j=11000I(Pj<0.05)