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Table 2 Parameters used for the Prospective STSS analysis

From: Monitoring European data with prospective space–time scan statistics: predicting and evaluating emerging clusters of COVID-19 in European countries

Years

2020

2021

Probability Model

Discrete Poisson

Discrete Poisson

Spatial window shape

Circular

Circular

Maximum Spatial window area

20% of the population at risk

10% of the population at risk

Minimum Temporal cluster duration

14 days

14 days

Maximum Temporal cluster duration

50% of the study period

50% of the study period

Maximum Monte Carlo permutations

999

999

P-value significance

p-value < 0.05

p-value < 0.05