Table 6. Rankings of Metric Importance.

Early Warning of Health Threats		Early Detection of Health Events		Situational Awareness		Consequence Management
1. Time to Indication	0.288	1. Time to Indication	0.275	1. Credibility	0.275	1. Credibility	0.271
2. Timeliness	0.188	2. Timeliness	0.184	2. Geo./Pop. Coverage	0.184	2. Geo./Pop. Coverage	0.146
3. Credibility	0.138	3. Credibility	0.138	3. Timeliness	0.138	2. Timeliness	0.146
4. Specificity of Detection	0.104	4. Specificity of Detection	0.108	4. Time to Indication	0.108	4. Specificity of Detection	0.105
5. Accessibility	0.079	5. Geo./Pop. Coverage	0.085	5. Accessibility	0.085	4. Time to Indication	0.105
6. Geo./Pop. Coverage	0.059	6. Accessibility	0.067	6. Specificity of Detection	0.067	6. Granularity	0.08
7. Flexibility	0.043	7. Granularity	0.052	7. Sustainability	0.052	7. Accessibility	0.059
7. Granularity	0.043	8. Integrability	0.039	8. Flexibility	0.039	8. Flexibility	0.041
9. Integrability	0.03	9. Flexibility	0.027	9. Integrability	0.027	9. Integrability	0.025
10. Sustainability	0.019	10. Sustainability	0.017	10. Granularity	0.017	10. Cost	0.011
11. Cost	0.009	11. Cost	0.008	11. Cost	0.008	10. Sustainability	0.011