Table 1 For random design RS with sample size of 100, we show the sample size needed to achieve a similar accuracy using an adaptive design AS.

From: Finding hotspots: development of an adaptive spatial sampling approach

Country

\(\Vert {\mathscr {A}}_i\Vert\)

Num. obsv.

Accuracy (%)

PPV (%)

Sensitivity (%)

MSE (\(\times 10^{-4}\))

RS

AS

RS

AS

RS

AS

RS

AS

RS

AS

Côte d’Ivoire

1

100

27

85.2

85.3

64.9

78.6

64.8

65.1

17.3

20.5

10

100

30

85.0

85.3

78.6

78.7

64.7

65.2

16.5

20.4

50

100

50

85.1

85.5

79.2

78.6

64.3

65.5

17.7

20.0

Malawi

1

100

36

81.8

81.9

80.8

80.6

59.9

59.4

14.0

14.9

10

100

40

81.6

82.0

79.5

80.5

60.8

59.7

14.1

15.0

50

100

50

82.1

82.1

80.3

80.3

61.9

60.4

13.8

14.5

Haiti

1

100

31

82.4

82.6

70.3

75.7

43.0

35.0

1.0

1.4

10

100

30

81.5

81.6

71.7

71.0

38.9

36.4

1.0

1.5

50

100

50

81.5

82.3

70.8

70.5

38.1

39.8

0.9

1.5

Philippines

1

100

7

95.2

95.2

93.7

94.4

69.7

67.7

2.5

4.3

10

100

10

95.1

95.2

94.1

93.6

68.9

68.6

2.3

5.1

50

100

50

95.2

95.6

94.6

85.0

68.9

79.8

2.7

5.5

  1. Additional validation statistics: PPV, sensitivity and MSE are also shown. Along the rows, results are shown per country and batch size \(\Vert {\mathscr {A}}_i\Vert\).