Simulated Benchmark Data

for the Evaluation of Early Disease Outbreak Detection Methods

based on New York City Zip Code Areas

Reference: Kulldorff M, Zhang Z, Hartman J, Heffernan R, Huang L, Mostashari F. Evaluating disease outbreak detection methods: Benchmark data and power calculations. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2004, 53:144-151.

These documents describe the benchmark data presented in and used by the reference above to evaluate statistical methods for the early detection of disease outbreaks. The data is described in detail in the paper, and here we only provide information about file folders, file names and the structure of the data in the files.

DESCRIPTION OF DATA FILES AND FORMATS
NYCbenchmark.doc		1 file	29 Kb
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES FILE
NYCbenchmark.geo		1 file	10 Kb
ZIP CODE POPULATION FILE
NYCbenchmark.pop		1 file	10 Kb
SIMULATED DATA
Space-Time Data
Null31	Data simulated under the null hypothesis, 31 days	1 file	18 Mb
Null32	Data simulated under the null hypothesis, 32 days	1 file	19 Mb
Null33	Data simulated under the null hypothesis, 33 days	1 file	19 Mb
OneZip31h	Outbreak in a single zip code, 31 days, high RR	5 files	9 Mb
OneZip32h	Outbreak in a single zip code, 32 days, high RR	5 files	9 Mb
OneZip33h	Outbreak in a single zip code, 33 days, high RR	5 files	10 Mb
OneZip31m	Outbreak in a single zip code, 31 days, medium RR	5 files	9 Mb
OneZip32m	Outbreak in a single zip code, 32 days, medium RR	5 files	9 Mb
OneZip33m	Outbreak in a single zip code, 33 days, medium RR	5 files	10 Mb
NNZips31h	Outbreak in zip code with nearest neighbors, 31 days, high RR	5 files	9 Mb
NNZips32h	Outbreak in zip code with nearest neighbors, 32 days, high RR	5 files	9 Mb
NNZips33h	Outbreak in zip code with nearest neighbors, 33 days, high RR	5 files	10 Mb
NNZips31m	Outbreak in zip code with nearest neighbors, 31 days, med RR	5 files	9 Mb
NNZips32m	Outbreak in zip code with nearest neighbors, 32 days, med RR	5 files	9 Mb
NNZips33m	Outbreak in zip code with nearest neighbors, 33 days, med RR	5 files	10 Mb
Borough31h	Outbreak in one of the five Boroughs, 31 days, high RR	5 files	9 Mb
Borough32h	Outbreak in one of the five Boroughs, 32 days, high RR	5 files	9 Mb
Borough33h	Outbreak in one of the five Boroughs, 33 days, high RR	5 files	10 Mb
Borough31m	Outbreak in one of the five Boroughs, 31 days, medium RR	5 files	9 Mb
Borough32m	Outbreak in one of the five Boroughs, 32 days, medium RR	5 files	9 Mb
Borough33m	Outbreak in one of the five Boroughs, 33 days, medium RR	5 files	10 Mb
Other31	Other outbreak models, 31 days, high & medium RR	6 files	11 Mb
Other32	Other outbreak models, 32 days, high & medium RR	6 files	11 Mb
Other33	Other outbreak models, 33 days, high & medium RR	6 files	12 Mb
Purely Temporal Data
Temporal	All the files with purely temporal data	111 files	9 Mb