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Table 1 The symmetric mean absolute percentage errors (%) of the traditional and stabilized spatiotemporal kriging in the scenarios of a single hotspot and double hotspots

From: A stabilized spatiotemporal kriging method for disease mapping and application to male oral cancer and female breast cancer in Taiwan

 

A single hotspot

Double hotspots

Population size

Coefficient of variation

Traditional spatiotemporal kriging

Stabilized spatiotemporal kriging

Traditional spatiotemporal kriging

Stabilized spatiotemporal kriging

25,000

0.5

21.18

21.02

26.11

20.75

25,000

1.0

21.56

21.36

33.31

28.87

50,000

0.5

15.26

15.12

24.53

20.69

50,000

1.0

18.23

18.08

24.99

20.14