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. 2023 Feb 8;9:e40311. doi: 10.2196/40311

Table 6.

The results of the paired t test for precision. Precision is defined as true positive cases / (correct presumptive cases + incorrect presumptive cases).


Before the EWORSa After the EWORS Difference t(668) P value
Total precision (SE) 7.7% (0.12%) 10.3% (0.15%) 2.7% (0.19%) 13.764 <.001
Hot spot precision (SE) 6.4% (0.14%) 11.9% (0.26%) 5.5% (0.29%) 18.613 <.001
Non–hot spot precision (SE) 8.6% (0.15%) 9.2% (0.11%) 0.5% (0.19%) 2.747 .003

aEWORS: early warning outbreak recognition system.