Table 1

Descriptive statistics of the distribution of incidence rates and kriged risks for cholera and dysentery in Matlab, 1994.

Statistics
Cholera
Dysentery



Kriged risk
Observed rate
Kriged risk
Observed rate

N
13689
6017
13689
6017
Mean
3.7238
3.8512
2.6841
2.7732
Std. Deviation
3.5083
20.134
2.4847
14.776
Minimum
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Maximum
40.93
500.00
15.92
250

Units are number of cases per 1,000 habitants.

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