Research Article

Detecting Spatial Clusters via a Mixture of Dirichlet Processes

Table 1

Simulation assessments for three foci-level clusters.

Scenario  () Median Num. of Clusters  (SD)Cluster indexAverage Sensitivity  (SD)Average Specificity  (SD)Average Accuracy (%)  (SD)

Normal (0.1, 1.0)IC: 3 (0.88)10.96 (0.13)1 (0)0.96 (0.13)
20.96 (0.13)1 (0)
30.96 (0.13)1 (0)
SC: 2 (0.32)10.93 (0.26)1 (0.04)0.96 (0.13)
21 (0.04)0.93 (0.26)

Chi-squared  (0.05, 0.1)IC: 19 (2.17)10.94 (0.09)0.91 (0.15)
20.74 (0.43)0.96 (0.02)0.54 (0.13)
30.09 (0.03)0.94 (0.16)
SC: 2 (0.56)10.76 (0.37)0.9 (0.1)0.82 (0.18)
20.88 (0.11)0.78 (0.36)

Large  1 (0.05, 0.1)IC: 3 (0.82)10.96 (0.13)1 (0)0.96 (0.13)
20.96 (0.13)1 (0)
30.96 (0.13)1 (0)
SC: 2 (0.29)10.92 (0.27)1 (0)0.96 (0.14)
21 (0)0.92 (0.27)

Large  2 (0.01, 0.5)IC: 3 (0.77)10.99 (0.04)1 (0)0.99 (0.02)
20.99 (0.03)1 (0)
31 (0.01)1 (0)
SC: 2 (0.14)11 (0.02)1 (0.01)1 (0.01)
21 (0.01)1 (0)

Large  3 (0.05, 0.05)IC: 5 (1.25)10.91 (0.13)1 (0)0.92 (0.07)
20.88 (0.16)1 (0)
30.96 (0.09)1 (0)
SC: 2 (0.37)10.97 (0.06)0.98 (0.03)0.97 (0.04)
20.98 (0.03)0.98 (0.03)

Large  4 (0.01, 2.0)IC: 9 (1.3)10.66 (0.14)0.99 (0.01)0.62 (0.09)
20.33 (0.08)0.99 (0.01)
30.8 (0.17)1 (0)
SC: 1 (0.36)10.04 (0.17)0.99 (0.05)0.51 (0.08)
20.98 (0.07)0.05 (0.18)

SD: standard deviation across 100 MC replicates; IC: individual foci cluster; SC: study effect clusters.