Generating social network data using partially described networks: an example informing avian influenza control in the British poultry industry

Table 7 British regions ranked by confidence interval widths for estimated probabilities of between-farm association frequencies

Regions ranked by L ^a	CI range for L ^b	Regions ranked by M ^a	CI range for M ^b	Regions ranked by S ^a	CI range for S ^b
Greater London	0.438	North East	0.132	East	0.065
North East	0.208	Wales	0.056	South West	0.069
North West	0.106	North West	0.048	West Midlands	0.074
Wales	0.103	East Midlands	0.044	Scotland	0.075
South East	0.092	Yorkshire	0.043	East Midlands	0.076
Yorkshire	0.089	South East	0.032	South East	0.092
West Midlands	0.074	East	0.027	Yorkshire	0.096
Scotland	0.072	West Midlands	0.023	North West	0.117
South West	0.069	Scotland	0.016	Wales	0.119
East Midlands	0.068	South West	0.015	North East	0.226
East	0.060	Greater London	<0.001	Greater London	0.375

^aRegions ranked in order of priority based on confidence in predicted probabilities of large (L) or medium (M) between-farm association frequency (CI range ranked from highest to lowest), and small (S) between-farm association frequency (CI range ranked from lowest to highest).
^bThe 95% confidence interval range (upper bound - lower bound) for predicted probabilities of large (L), medium (M), and small (S), between-farm association frequencies.

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