USA Infectious Disease Transmission Data (corrected)

E.g., let’s say the human specific diseases had something like 2000 cases for a state and the multihost diseases had only 20 cases, if you z-score them separately you could have the same z-score for the human specific and the multihost for that state (e.g., each could get 1.2). If you then add these two together (2.4) you get a different score than if you added all the cases together (human specific cases + multi-host cases) and then z-scored the state values.

In this new data file (USA_Transmission_Data_corrected.xlsx), we standardised the values after we summed them, correcting the problem. The human specific, multi-host, and zoonotic values in this 'USA_Transmission_Data_corrected.xlsx' file are identical to that published in Thornhill and Fincher (2014). Also, this spreadsheet includes both “with DC” and “without DC” data.

We tend to use the “without DC” data unless there’s a strong reason to include it. Thornhill, R., & Fincher, C. L. (2014). The parasite-stress theory of values and sociality: Infectious disease, history and human values worldwide.

Springer.