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Table 1 Spearman’s rho rank for the search terms related to tick paralysis in Google Trends

From: Use of big data in the surveillance of veterinary diseases: early detection of tick paralysis in companion animals

 

Australia

QLD

NSW

Search term

rho

P-value

rho

P-value

rho

P-value

Paralysis tick

0.95a

< 0.01

0.81a

< 0.01

0.89a

< 0.01

Tick paralysis

0.91a

< 0.01

0.92a

< 0.01

0.89a

< 0.01

Ticks

0.83a

< 0.01

0.82a

< 0.01

0.83a

< 0.01

Tick

0.81a

< 0.01

0.83a

< 0.01

0.87a

< 0.01

Paralysis ticks

0.85a

< 0.01

0.68b

< 0.01

0.66b

< 0.01

Dog tick

0.76b

< 0.01

0.59

< 0.01

0.80a

< 0.01

Dogs ticks

0.72b

< 0.01

0.88a

< 0.01

0.70b

< 0.01

Removing ticks

0.70b

< 0.01

0.65b

< 0.01

0.65b

< 0.01

Dog ticks

0.67b

< 0.01

0.40

0.016

0.60b

< 0.01

Remove tick

0.78b

< 0.01

0.78b

< 0.01

0.52

< 0.01

Cat tick

0.75b

< 0.01

0.72b

< 0.01

0.42

< 0.01

Paralysis tick dogs

0.79b

< 0.01

0.40

0.015

0.37

0.020

Dog paralysis tick

0.79b

< 0.01

0.45

< 0.01

0.43

< 0.01

Paralysis tick dog

0.71b

< 0.01

0.37

0.026

0.44

< 0.01

Cats ticks

0.70b

< 0.01

0.40

0.015

0.38

0.020

Tick on dog

0.61b

< 0.01

0.36

0.026

0.34

0.037

Paralysis tick symptoms

0.77b

< 0.01

No data

 

0.44

< 0.01

Tick in dog

0.58

< 0.01

No data

 

0.43

< 0.01

Paralysis tick treatment

0.48

0.030

No data

 

No data

 

Tick paralysis in dogs

0.46

< 0.01

No data

 

No data

 

Tick symptoms dog

0.43

< 0.01

No data

 

No data

 

Paralysis tick humans

0.39

0.018

No data

 

No data

 

Dog tick treatment

0.36

< 0.01

No data

 

No data

 

Paralysis tick Australia

0.36

0.030

No data

 

No data

 

Brown dog tick

No data

 

No data

 

No data

 

Dog tick removal

No data

 

No data

 

No data

 

Paralysis tick cat

No data

 

No data

 

No data

 

Paralysis tick cats

No data

 

No data

 

No data

 

Tick paralysis in humans

No data

 

No data

 

No data

 

Tick paralysis in cats

No data

 

No data

 

No data

 

Ticks and dog paralysis

No data

 

No data

 

No data

 
  1. aTop ranked terms that have very strong Spearman’s correlation with the Disease WatchDog data (rho ≥ 0.8)
  2. bTerms that have strong Spearman’s correlation (rho ≥ 0.6); other terms are correlated in a lesser degree. P-values for all search terms with data available were P < 0.05, which are represented beside each column
  3. No data, the metrics for that term were not available