Table 2 Comparisons of daily AMR news counts by November and non-November months and by year, stratified by country or territory

Mean daily counts

6.04

2.40

0.70

0.71

0.27

1.15

4.83

0.47

0.33

Standard deviation

11.56

5.56

1.68

1.49

1.05

1.97

8.09

1.28

1.00

Median daily counts

3

1

0

0

0

0

2

0

0

Range of daily counts

0–236

0–71

0–20

0–23

0–22

0–22

0–73

0–15

0–13

Difference in daily counts. (z-score based on Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test) by year in non-Nov. versus

 Nov. 2015

0.38

− 1.80

− 0.98

0.15

− 2.66**

− 1.73

− 2.97**

− 0.60

− 0.90

 Nov. 2016

− 1.28

1.00

− 1.14

− 2.65**

0.96

− 2.95**

− 5.17***

− 0.67

1.09

 Nov. 2017

0.16

1.11

0.58

− 1.50

0.01

0.05

0.22

− 0.78

− 0.82

 Nov. 2018

0.02

− 1.06

− 0.43

0.08

− 4.10***

− 2.22*

− 0.32

0.72

− 1.60

Differences in daily counts among years (Kruskal Wallis test)^a

10.18*

2.88

2.67

14.88**

12.29**

36.66***

61.79***

7.06

18.42***

Post-hoc Dunn’s pairwise comparison between years (z-score)^b

 2015 versus 2016

− 1.67

–

–

− 3.74***

− 2.10

0.11

− 4.57***

–

1.32

 2015 versus 2017

− 0.31

–

–

− 2.70*

− 2.44*

− 5.06***

− 6.52***

–

− 2.84

 2015 versus 2018

1.52

–

–

− 2.12

− 3.40**

− 2.72*

− 7.06***

–

− 0.09

 2016 versus 2017

1.35

–

–

1.03

− 0.34

− 5.18***

− 1.95

–

− 4.17***

 2016 versus 2018

3.19**

–

–

1.61

− 1.30

− 2.83*

− 2.49*

–

− 1.41

 2017 versus 2018

1.84

–

–

0.58

0.96

2.34

− 0.54

–

2.75*