Volume 16, Number 3—March 2010
Dispatch
Climate Warming and Tick-borne Encephalitis, Slovakia
Table 1
Nonparametric test and test of stationarity for mean altitude and mean annual air temperature with regard to TBE, Slovakia, 1980–2004*
Data | Test values |
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RS | p value† | KPSS | p value† | ||
Mean annual air temperature | 0.55 | 0.01 | 0.56 | <0.05 | |
Mean TBE altitude | 0.87 | <0.001 | 0.86 | <0.01 |
*TBE, tick-borne encephalitis; Rs, Spearman rank correlation test, a nonparametric test; KPSS, Kwiatkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin test, a test of stationarity (no change with time).
†Probability of adopting the null hypothesis of randomness (Spearman RS) and stationarity (KPSS).