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Table 1 Evaluation of ordinary kriging and ordinary cokriging with various combinatorial approaches (evaluation results of top 10 best methods for each class of PTB prevalence)

From: Spatial variations of pulmonary tuberculosis prevalence co-impacted by socio-economic and geographic factors in People’s Republic of China, 2010

Variable

Covariable

Type of detrending

Anisotropy

Model

Prediction errors

Rank

Mean

RMS

Meanstan

RMSStan

ASE

RMS

AbsMeanStan

RMSStan

RMSASE

Total

Smear positive PTB prevalence

HDI + Elevation

Global

TRUE

K-Bessel

0.07657

94.16

0.0006996

1.031

91.36

44.5

14.0

14.5

15.5

88.5

HDI + Elevation

Neighborhood

TRUE

K-Bessel

−0.02200

94.12

−0.0002937

1.037

90.83

40.0

6.0

46.5

43.5

136.0

HDI + Elevation

Local

TRUE

Stable

−0.08795

93.82

−0.0009434

1.038

90.47

15.5

21.0

53.0

49.5

139.0

HDI + Elevation

Local

TRUE

Gaussian

−0.12560

93.95

−0.0013150

1.037

90.63

29.0

36.0

46.5

48.0

159.5

HDI

Local

TRUE

Pentaspherical

0.05834

93.54

0.0006271

1.044

89.66

1.0

12.0

79.0

76.0

168.0

HDI

Global

TRUE

Stable

0.27480

94.02

0.0027300

1.028

91.52

34.0

122.0

10.0

9.0

175.0

HDI

Neighborhood

TRUE

Stable

0.24590

93.87

0.0025130

1.033

90.94

22.5

110.0

22.5

23.0

178.0

HDI + Elevation

Neighborhood

TRUE

Gaussian

0.05429

94.30

0.0005347

1.038

90.88

68.0

10.0

53.0

55.0

186.0

HDI + Elevation

Local

TRUE

Pentaspherical

0.19470

93.57

0.0021250

1.039

90.08

2.5

78.0

56.5

59.0

196.0

HDI + Elevation

Global

TRUE

Stable

0.28060

94.13

0.0028940

1.031

91.33

41.5

131.0

14.5

15.5

202.5

Mycobacterium positive PTB prevalence

HDI + Elevation

Global

TRUE

J-Bessel

0.87820

151.0

0.00587800

1.089

138.2

8.0

105.0

1.0

1.0

115.0

 

Global

TRUE

Stable

0.24530

152.7

0.00135700

1.100

138.5

139.0

16.0

12.5

11.0

178.5

HDI

Global

TRUE

J-Bessel

0.25230

152.6

0.00124300

1.107

137.4

127.5

13.0

28.0

28.0

196.5

Elevation

Global

TRUE

Hole Effect

0.84340

152.3

0.00561100

1.094

138.8

103.0

95.0

2.0

2.0

202.0

HDI

Global

TRUE

Hole Effect

0.07334

152.8

−0.00008275

1.106

137.7

149.0

1.0

27.0

27.0

204.0

Elevation

Global

TRUE

J-Bessel

0.85340

152.5

0.00544800

1.099

138.4

117.5

83.0

9.5

8.5

218.5

Elevation

Global

TRUE

K-Bessel

0.46630

153.0

0.00294700

1.101

138.5

184.5

31.0

15.5

16.5

247.5

 

Neighborhood

TRUE

Stable

0.32670

152.7

0.00200600

1.117

136.3

139.0

20.0

48.5

49.0

256.5

HDI

Neighborhood

TRUE

J-Bessel

0.50320

152.3

0.00318000

1.121

135.4

103.0

37.0

64.0

63.5

267.5

HDI + Elevation

Neighborhood

TRUE

J-Bessel

1.27800

151.5

0.00886400

1.110

136.1

21.0

197.0

32.5

30.0

280.5

Active PTB prevalence

HDI + Elevation

Global

FALSE

Pentaspherical

0.5921

426.5

0.003456

1.255

333.5

28.5

55.0

44.0

54.5

182.0

HDI

Global

TRUE

Gaussian

0.9281

432.5

0.002311

1.235

348.0

156.5

27.0

7.0

6.0

196.5

HDI + Elevation

Global

FALSE

Tetraspherical

0.8312

426.8

0.004003

1.251

335.2

39.0

76.0

38.5

46.5

200.0

HDI

Global

TRUE

K-Bessel

1.1140

432.0

0.002998

1.236

347.3

144.5

42.0

9.0

7.5

203.0

HDI

Global

TRUE

Hole Effect

0.4762

433.4

0.001026

1.240

347.2

171.5

7.0

14.5

13.5

206.5

 

Global

FALSE

Tetraspherical

0.5214

426.5

0.003206

1.261

331.9

28.5

49.0

55.5

73.5

206.5

HDI

Global

FALSE

Tetraspherical

0.5249

426.5

0.003222

1.261

331.9

28.5

50.0

55.5

73.5

207.5

HDI + Elevation

Global

FALSE

Spherical

1.1160

427.2

0.004647

1.247

336.8

48.5

90.0

30.0

39.0

207.5

 

Global

FALSE

Pentaspherical

0.2991

426.2

0.002701

1.265

330.4

23.0

32.0

70.5

83.0

208.5

  

Global

FALSE

Spherical

0.7560

426.8

0.003742

1.257

333.4

39.0

65.0

46.0

59.5

209.5

  1. PTB, pulmonary tuberculosis; HDI, human development index; RMS, root-mean-square; MeanStan, mean standardized; RMSStan, root-mean-square standardized; ASE, average standard errors; AbsMeanStan, absolute value of MeanStan; RMSASE, difference value of subtracting ASE from RMS.