Table 6 |
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Correlation between Twitter positives and CDC cases |
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Category |
Spearman’s Rhoa |
p-valueb |
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A |
0.66 |
0.020 |
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S |
0.66 |
0.021 |
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I |
0.58 |
0.048 |
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P |
0.67 |
0.017 |
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A+I+P |
0.68 |
0.008 |
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A+I+P+S |
0.67 |
0.017 |
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Correlation between CDC AH1N1 laboratory data frequency for Influenza 2009-2010 and aggregated self protection behaviour counts and self reported diagnosis from Tweets. a Spearman’s rank-order correlation coefficient. b p values are reported for a two-tailed test. Calculations were done using VassarStats (http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/corr_rank.html webcite) |
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Collier et al. Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011 2(Suppl 5):S9 doi:10.1186/2041-1480-2-S5-S9 |
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