Table 1.

Spearman correlations coefficient between meteorological variables, untransformed malaria case count and logarithmically transformed malaria case count

	relative humidity	rainfall	average temperature	average maximum temperature	average minimum temperature	malaria incidence
relative humidity	1.000	0.844**	0.794**	0.728**	0.836**	0.543**
rainfall	0.844**	1.000	0.738**	0.675**	0.772**	0.348**
average temperature	0.794**	0.738**	1.000	0.981**	0.990**	0.518**
average maximum temperature	0.728**	0.675**	0.981**	1.000	0.954**	0.529**
average minimum temperature	0.836**	0.772**	0.990**	0.954**	1.000	0.510**
malaria incidence	0.543**	0.348**	0.518**	0.529**	0.510**	1.000

Significance of correlation coefficient different from zero: ** = P < 0.01