Table 1.
Bivariate analysis of the relationship between annual malaria incidence and climatic covariates fitted using negative binomial regression.
Covariates | Coefficients | SE | 95% CI | P-value |
Mean temperature (°C) | 0.295 | 0.024 | 0.248, 0.341 | < 0.001 |
Maximum temperature (°C) | 0.149 | 0.021 | 0.107, 0.189 | < 0.001 |
Minimum temperature (°C) | 0.439 | 0.024 | 0.391, 0.487 | < 0.001 |
Vapour pressure (hPa) | 0.046 | 0.003 | 0.040, 0.051 | < 0.001 |
NDVI | 0.654 | 0.127 | 0.405, 0.903 | < 0.001 |
Rainfall (mm) | 0.021 | 0.002 | 0.016, 0.026 | < 0.001 |
SE – standard error; CI – confidence intervals; NDVI – normalized difference vegetation index