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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 10.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2014 Mar 18;33(15):2634–2644. doi: 10.1002/sim.6143

Table 3.

Prospective space-time permutation scan statistic using the NYC borough benchmark datasets. Presented are the estimated relative risk bias B^¯ and power for all borough scenarios with a 0.05 significance level.

Region Cluster Type Relative risk
Medium
High
B^¯

Power
B^¯

Power
31 32 33 31 32 33 31 32 33 31 32 33
H0 5.79 5.37 4.69 0.05 0.06 0.05 5.79 5.37 4.69 0.05 0.06 0.05

Brooklyn One Zip 1.35 1.11 1.04 0.30 0.64 0.82 0.97 0.91 0.88 0.84 0.99 1.00
Neighbors Zip 1.49 1.11 1.03 0.33 0.70 0.85 1.01 0.89 0.85 0.79 0.99 1.00
Borough 1.44 1.05 0.97 0.31 0.66 0.86 0.97 0.79 0.74 0.73 0.98 1.00

Manhattan One Zip * 1.92 1.72 1.45 0.32 0.57 0.79 1.25 1.02 0.97 0.88 1.00 1.00
Neighbors Zip 1.36 1.12 1.01 0.34 0.70 0.88 1.01 0.88 0.86 0.80 0.99 1.00
Borough * 1.90 1.27 1.08 0.29 0.59 0.77 1.14 0.90 0.83 0.65 0.95 0.99

Staten Island One Zip 1.34 1.14 1.03 0.65 0.83 0.85 0.98 0.90 0.88 0.83 0.99 1.00
Neighbors Zip 1.45 1.13 1.04 0.32 0.84 0.68 0.97 0.87 0.82 0.77 0.98 1.00
Borough 1.67 1.22 1.08 0.37 0.71 0.90 1.13 0.94 0.89 0.79 0.99 1.00

Queens One Zip 1.56 1.25 1.15 0.61 0.81 1.06 0.96 0.94 0.84 0.84 0.99 1.00
Neighbors Zip 1.41 1.11 1.00 0.33 0.68 0.87 1.00 0.87 0.84 0.77 0.99 1.00
Borough 1.71 1.19 1.07 0.32 0.66 0.86 1.06 0.84 0.77 0.71 0.97 1.00

Bronx One Zip 1.33 1.18 1.07 0.31 0.65 0.83 1.02 0.93 0.91 0.82 1.00 1.00
Neighbors Zip 1.35 1.13 1.01 0.34 0.67 0.88 1.00 0.89 0.86 0.80 0.98 1.00
Borough 1.45 1.15 1.01 0.37 0.72 0.90 1.05 0.85 0.81 0.74 0.98 1.00
*

removed cases where B^¯ was estimated to be infinity.