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For each potential district 
as outbreak origin we computed the
Pearson correlation of arrival time 
and effective distance 
and ranked all districts with respect
to correlation magnitude. The actual outbreak origin Uelzen is ranked at
position 30. High correlation districts all lie in Northern Germany.
