Table 2.

Meta regression analysis of effect size with respect to region, diagnostic tests, and specie

Sub-group	Estimate	SE	p-value	CI (95%)
Region
South Asia (Reference)
Africa	1.3527	0.3033	<.0001	1.9496, 0.7558
East Asia and the Pacific	1.0741	0.3601	0.0031	1.7826, 0.3655
Latin America and the Caribbean	0.3279	0.425	0.441	1.1643, −0.5085
South America	1.9233	0.562	0.0007	3.0292, 0.8173
Diagnostic Test
Histopathology (Reference)
PCR	−0.3059	0.6953	0.6603	−1.6742, 1.0624
Microscopy	−0.5356	0.6889	0.4375	−1.8913, 0.8201
RDT	−0.6884	0.7323	0.348	−2.1296, 0.7528
Specie
Plasmodium Vivax (Reference)
Plasmodium falciparum	0.4289	0.16	0.01	0.0945, 0.7632
Plasmodium falciparum and Vivax	−0.8248	0.6073	0.175	−2.0199, 0.3703