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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2019 Feb 13;91:103126. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2019.103126

Table 6:

Precision and recall for identifying the patients who are part of an outbreak.

Outbreak size
Method Metric 2–3 4–6 7–9 ≥ 10
DITOc precision 0.68 ± 0.065 0.99 ± 0.012 1.0 ± 0.0 1.0 ± 0.0
recall 0.68 ± 0.065 0.97 ± 0.019 1.0 ± 0.0 1.0 ± 0.0
DITOw10 precision 0.29 ± 0.062 0.62 ± 0.073 0.90 ± 0.054 0.80 ± 0.047
recall 0.26 ± 0.056 0.46 ± 0.059 0.64 ± 0.060 0.73 ± 0.058
DITOw0 precision 0.062 ± 0.028 0.11 ± 0.040 0.22 ± 0.076 0.46 ± 0.077
recall 0.059 ± 0.026 0.072 ± 0.029 0.23 ± 0.083 0.53 ± 0.10
ExpR precision 0.012 ± 0.0095 0.029 ± 0.017 0.023 ± 0.023 0.14 ± 0.048
recall 0.015 ± 0.011 0.015 ± 0.0085 0.010 ± 0.012 0.019 ± 0.0069
SIM precision 0.44 ± 0.069 0.97 ± 0.027 1.0 ± 0.0 1.0 ± 0.0
recall 0.44 ± 0.069 0.96 ± 0.028 1.0 ± 0.0 1.0 ± 0.0