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Volume 18, Number 8—August 2012
Research

Comparison of Enzootic Risk Measures for Predicting West Nile Disease, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2004–2010

Jennifer L. Kwan, Bborie K. Park, Tim E. Carpenter, Van Ngo, Rachel Civen, and William K. ReisenComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of California, Davis, California, USA (J.L. Kwan, B.K. Park, T.E. Carpenter, W.K. Reisen); and Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA (V. Ngo, R. Civen)

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Table 2

Comparison of CMVRA, vector index, and DYCAST for predicting risk for West Nile disease by the calculation threshold applied, validation method, and associated risk, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2004–2010*

Model Sensitivity Specificity PPV LRP LRN Mantel-Haenszel RR (95% CI)
CMVRA
2.6 0.976 0.815 0.588 5.261 0.03 403.453 (70.506–2,308.659)
4.1 0.317 1 1 UND 0.683 38.255 (29.425–49.736)
Vector index (percentile)
0.018 (65) 0.974 0.758 0.507 4.029 0.034 25.251 (18.120–35.033)
0.041 (75) 0.846 0.902 0.688 8.631 0.171 25.383 (18.350–35.112)
0.095 (85) 0.564 0.954 0.759 12.33 0.457 24.284 (17.503–33.692)
0.276 (95) 0.246 0.993 0.909 36.231 0.748 23.253 (16.878–32.036)
DYCAST
Daily 0.268 0.165 <0.001 0.321 4.443 10.112 (7.367–13.880)
Biweekly 0.361 0.045 0.006 0.378 14.242 9.756 (7.764–12.258)

*CMVRA, California Mosquito-Borne Virus Risk Assessment; DYCAST, Dynamic Continuous-Area Space-Time system; PPV, positive predictive value; LRP, likelihood ratio positive; LRN, likelihood ratio negative; RR, relative risk; UND, undefined due to the high specificity.

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