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Table 1 Summary of the parameters used to generate the data sets

From: Analysis of contamination in cluster randomized trials of malaria interventions

  

Levels

Values

Fixed parameters used to generate the data sets

N

Number of households in trial

 

2500

η

Domain size

 

5 km

α1, α2, α3

Parameters for the Thomas process [21]

 

4, 50, 0.25 km

ξ, π

Index households and bandwidth for the KDE

 

200, 0.5 km

ζ1, ζ2

Scaling of Ci’s

 

0.2, 0.6

Varying parameters used to generate the data sets

Es

Efficacy

2

0.2, 0.4

σ

Standard deviation

5

0.042, 0.106, 0.170, 0.234, 0.298 km

\(\theta = 1.64 \sqrt {2}\sigma \)

Contamination range

 

0.10, 0.25, 0.40, 0.55, 0.70 km

c

Number of clusters

 

20, 25, 30, 35

h

Households per cluster

 

30, 40, 50, 60, 70

c&h

Only combinations with 0.6N<2hcN households

8

 
 

Seed, sampled out of [1,100 000] with seed(-1)

100