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. 2010 Nov 6;376(9752):1579–1591. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61301-3

Table 1.

Example of selected indices and ranking methods for five countries

R0 Political stability Health-care spending Conventional mean rank Poset mean rank
Dominican Republic 0·19 (1) 0·12 (2) 356 (1) 1·3 1·2
Burundi 16·44 (3) −1·42 (4) 17 (4) 3·7 4·0
Ghana 59·25 (4) 0·22 (1) 93 (3) 2·7 3·0
Somalia 5·16 (2) −3·01 (5) 0 (5) 4·0 4·0
Equatorial Guinea 79·81 (5) −0·16 (3) 282 (2) 3·3 4·0

Numbers in parentheses are ranks. See panel 3 for discussion. R0=basic reproductive number.