Research Article

Spatiotemporal Patterns of Burned Areas Based on the Geographic Information System for Fire Risk Monitoring

Table 2

Guideline in interpreting the z-score value in hot spot analysis.

No.z-scoreInterpretation

1<−2.58Cold spot- 99% confidence
2−2.58 to −1.96Cold spot- 95% confidence
3−1.96 to −1.65Cold spot- 90% confidence
4−1.65 to 1.65Not significant
51.65 to 1.96Hot spot- 90% confidence
61.96 to 2.58Hot spot- 95% confidence
7>2.58Hot spot- 99% confidence

Source: [38].