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. 2012 Aug 16;33:153–165. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2012.07.008

Table 5.

Impacts of severity of risk (number of people sickened or died) on AR and CAR.

Descriptive statistics
Parametric test (high severity risk − low severity risk)
Non-parametric test (high severity risk − low severity risk)
Low severity (n = 20) High severity (n = 20) F Sig. Mann–Whitney U test Z Sig.
ARn t0 −1.020 −1.729 .147 .704 166 −.92 .358
t1 −1.293 −.906 .324 .573 192 −.216 .829
t2 −1.502 −1.355 .016 .901 199 −.027 .978
t3 −.110 −.102 .000 .993 197 −.081 .935
t4 −.307 −.616 .340 .563 186 −.379 .705
t5 −.498 −1.368 .463 .500 172 −.757 .449
t6 1.045 −.288 .802 .376 152 −1.298 .194
t7 .692 −.506 2.269 .140 190 −.271 .787
t8 .172 .041 .016 .900 180 −.541 .588
t9 −.161 .007 .062 .804 189 −.298 .766
t10 −.892 .195 2.557 .118 160 −1.082 .279



CAR t0 − t1 −2.313 −2.566 .032 .860 178 −.835 .404
t0 − t2 −3.815 −3.901 .002 .963 203 −.183 .855
t0 − t3 −3.926 −3.994 .001 .973 183 −.704 .481
t0 − t4 −4.234 −4.673 .040 .843 197 −.339 .735
t0 − t5 −4.733 −6.028 .215 .645 194 −.417 .676
t0 − t10 −3.876 −6.686 .739 .395 203 −.183 .855
t0 − t20 −4.659 −6.838 .401 .530 210 .000 1.00
t0 − t30 −3.491 −7.989 1.344 .253 183 −.704 .481

*p < .05.

**p < .01.

***p < .001.