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Table 2 Global properties for multimorbidity networks constructed with select association measures

From: The effect of disease co-occurrence measurement on multimorbidity networks: a population-based study

Association measure	Top 200 associations^a				Top 50% of associations^b
Association measure	N nodes	Density	Modularity	N communities	N nodes	Density	Modularity	N communities
Lift	108	0.04	0.72	13	165	0.29	0.30	6
Relative risk	114	0.03	0.60	13	166	0.29	0.43	5
Phi	87	0.05	0.43	17	164	0.29	0.19	4
Jaccard	72	0.08	0.37	14	150	0.35	0.16	5
Cosine	73	0.08	0.37	11	161	0.31	0.15	4
Kulczynski	123	0.03	0.37	8	166	0.29	0.14	5
Joint prevalence	56	0.13	0.08	3	151	0.35	0.07	2

^aDisease network was limited to the 200 strongest associations (i.e., largest effect size)
^bDisease network was limited to the strongest 50% (n = 3922) of all statistically significant associations

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