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. 2019 Sep 30;14(9):e0222986. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222986

Table 4. Purely spatial scan statistics of the most likely cluster and secondary clusters of malaria episodes at the village level, southern-central Ethiopia, October 2014 to January 2017.

Cluster # villages Coordinates Radius
(km)
Pop. # episodes Expected cases Annual episodes per 1000 RR LLR P-value
All malaria types*
Most likely 17 8.012083 N, 38.716507 E 2.03 3605 346 123.44 41.05 3.55 159.3 <0.001
Secondary 19 7.858422 N, 38.741448 E 2.69 3055 246 104.60 34.30 2.69 77.7 <0.001
Secondary 4 7.902991 N, 38.697144 E 1.16 568 58 19.46 43.67 3.08 25.5 <0.001
Plasmodium falciparum
Most likely 5 8.022632 N, 38.716322 E 0.95 927 126 17.49 58.13 8.69 150.1 <0.001
Secondary 11 7.863378 N, 38.737913 E 0.73 1637 103 30.89 26.91 3.77 56.28 <0.001
Secondary 6 7.920306 N, 38.692410 E 1.83 971 49 18.32 21.58 2.81 18.28 <0.001
  Secondary 2 8.027165 N, 38.691838 E 1.28 246 17 4.64 29.55 3.73 9.83 0.004
Plasmodium vivax
Most likely 18 8.006982 N, 38.724748 E 2.15 3602 82 31.17 9.74 3.25 33.63 <0.001
Secondary 1 7.893858 N, 38.692012 E 0.0 228 19 1.97 35.64 10.21 26.5 <0.001
  Secondary 15 7.871003 N, 38.742309 E 1.83 2219 55 19.20 10.60 3.28 24.5 <0.001

* Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, or mixed, RR = Relative risk, LLR = Log likelihood ratio