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Table 2 Spearman’s rank correlation between immunity estimated from nationwide serology and (if contact-adjusted) contact studies on the one hand and the mean number of cases in the 10 years following the studies on the other

From: Combining serological and contact data to derive target immunity levels for achieving and maintaining measles elimination

Immunity model

R0 model

Vaccination model

Equivocal samples

Correlation (90% CI)

Contact-adjusted

Fixed

Projected

Negative

−0.28 (−0.36, −0.2)

Contact-adjusted

Fixed

Ignored

Negative

−0.16 (−0.27, −0.042)

Contact-adjusted

Fixed

Projected

Positive

−0.53 (−0.59, −0.46)

Contact-adjusted

Fixed

Ignored

Positive

−0.39 (−0.49, −0.27)

Contact-adjusted

Fixed

Projected

Removed

−0.5 (−0.56, −0.43)

Contact-adjusted

Fixed

Ignored

Removed

−0.37 (−0.47, −0.24)

Contact-adjusted

Scaled

Projected

Negative

−0.23 (−0.35, −0.13)

Contact-adjusted

Scaled

Ignored

Negative

−0.078 (−0.21, 0.059)

Contact-adjusted

Scaled

Projected

Positive

−0.49 (−0.55, −0.44)

Contact-adjusted

Scaled

Ignored

Positive

−0.38 (−0.47, −0.25)

Contact-adjusted

Scaled

Projected

Removed

−0.47 (−0.52, −0.4)

Contact-adjusted

Scaled

Ignored

Removed

−0.37 (−0.45, −0.22)

Plain

Fixed

Projected

Negative

−0.025 (−0.086, 0.025)

Plain

Fixed

Ignored

Negative

0.0098 (−0.047, 0.054)

Plain

Fixed

Projected

Positive

−0.29 (−0.36, −0.21)

Plain

Fixed

Ignored

Positive

−0.23 (−0.3, −0.16)

Plain

Fixed

Projected

Removed

−0.26 (−0.33, −0.19)

Plain

Fixed

Ignored

Removed

−0.21 (−0.28, −0.14)

Plain

Scaled

Projected

Negative

0.032 (−0.0098, 0.081)

Plain

Scaled

Ignored

Negative

0.056 (0.015, 0.11)

Plain

Scaled

Projected

Positive

−0.22 (−0.28, −0.14)

Plain

Scaled

Ignored

Positive

−0.16 (−0.23, −0.1)

Plain

Scaled

Projected

Removed

−0.19 (−0.25, −0.13)

Plain

Scaled

Ignored

Removed

−0.14 (−0.2, −0.083)

  1. The model with the greatest absolute correlation is highlighted in italics