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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2012 Nov;23(6):829–838. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31826c2dda

Table 4.

Correlation between flu-associated mortality and excess mortality during various time periods

Correlation with excess mortality above baseline + trend Pearson Correlation coefficient (95% CI) P Spearman Correlation coefficient P
Following summer −0.482 (−0.85 to 0.21) P= 0.158 −0.455 P= 0.191
Same year 0.748 (0.22 to 0.94) P= 0.013 0.66 P= 0.042
Same winter 0.864 (0.51 to 0.97) P= 0.001 0.85 P= 0.003