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Table 2 Statistical characteristics of raw, globally smoothed and locally smoothed 5-year prevalence of campylobacter in the population (
) between 2008
‰
and 2012
Mean Median Standard deviation Interquartile range
Complete Reduced Complete Reduced Complete Reduced Complete Reduced
Raw 7.08 17.33 0.00 9.69 41.33 63.26 7.76 10.16
EBB 8.00 13.26 5.63 9.71 13.80 20.26 5.83 8.89
LEBQ1 15.53 31.20 5.80 8.75 409.23 639.80 6.97 7.19
Complete
stands for observations in all municipal districts of the Czech Republic while
Reduced
refers solely to municipal districts with recorded disease cases
Raw
—crude prevalence i.e. division of recorded cases and population (
‰
);
EBB
—global empirical Bayes estimates of the prevalence rate based on binomial
distribution;
LEBQ1
—local empirical Bayes estimates of the prevalence rate based on the first order queen contiguity and rate in defined neighbourhood
