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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 14.
Published in final edited form as: Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2020 Mar 6;33:100339. doi: 10.1016/j.sste.2020.100339

Table 4.

Overview of aggregation schemes and the recommended median case count ranges and population thresholds (for a single year of data).

Aggregation
scheme
Median case count
range
Population threshold
Census tract ≥17.0 cases Census tract*
Common outcome 7.3 to 16.9 cases Total population 5000 persons
Rare outcome 1.9 to 7.2 cases Total population 20,000 persons
*

Note: The census tract population threshold is based on the fact that census tracts are built with an average population of 4000 persons (with a wide range).