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Table 2 Summary statistics for the distribution across HRRs of mean entropy (taken over six 1-year windows) for the three different ways of constructing networks

From: Comparison of physician networks constructed from thresholded ties versus shared clinical episodes

Entropy/Summary

Min

Max

Mean

SD

Median

Fixed-threshold

0.027

0.315

0.124

0.068

0.114

Adaptive-threshold

0.015

0.317

0.124

0.072

0.118

Episode

0.037

0.352

0.185

0.072

0.189