Table 2.

The most significant spatial clusters of HD (by individual year) in white-tailed deer during the entire study period (1980–2013) with a maximum spatial window = 50% of the total population

Year	Location(s)a	Observed	Expected	P-value
1980	Central (Howard)	189	15.52	P < 0.0001
1988	Central, South (Laclede)	762	337.18	P < 0.0001
2005	Central, Southwest (Dallas)	711	263.86	P < 0.0001
2006	Southwest (Dade)	246	42.64	P < 0.0001
2007	East (Lincoln)	843	91.31	P < 0.0001
2010	Central (Saline)	150	3.11	P < 0.0001
2012	Central, West (Lafayette)	5358	3223.70	P < 0.0001
2013	Northeast (Clark)	270	20.94	P < 0.0001

^aDenotes county of approximate center of each cluster. Observed: the number of incidents in the most significant cluster only. Expected: the expected number of incidents in the cluster based on the random replications. The number of estimated HD cases was available only for the years presented here