Table 2.
Global Moran’s I values for dengue and chikungunya empirical Bayes (EB) smoothed disease rates, aggregated to health district, in each year in the study
| Arbovirus | Year | Total cases | Moran’s I* | Z-score | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dengue | 2013 | 526 | 0.290 | 5.77 | < 0.001 |
| Dengue | 2014 | 147 | 0.103 | 2.22 | 0.026 |
| Dengue | 2015 | 58 | 0.166 | 3.35 | < 0.001 |
| Dengue | 2016 | 386 | 0.330 | 6.43 | < 0.001 |
| Chikungunya | 2014 | 57 | 0.06 | 1.30 | 0.192 |
P-values in bold indicate statistically significant results.
Moran’s I values range between -1 and 1, where negative values indicate dispersion and positive values indicate clustering.