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. 2015 Aug 25;14:329. doi: 10.1186/s12936-015-0844-7

Table 5.

Chi square automatic interaction detector gain index

Cluster node Node description Node Gain % prompte Indexf
Na %b Nc %d
A B C D E F G H
Cluster 1 2059 32.5 1504 37.5 73.0 115.3
 14 Mozambique and Zanzibar: children from 20 to 29 years old mothers 199 3.1 171 4.3 85.9 135.6
 15 Mozambique and Zanzibar: children from 15 to 19 years old mothers and 30–49 years old mothers 209 3.3 157 3.9 75.1 118.5
 16 Uganda: children from urban areas 334 5.3 240 6.0 71.9 113.4
 4 Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal, and Tanzania: all children 1317 20.8 936 23.3 71.1 112.1
Cluster 2 3366 53.1 2102 52.3 62.4 98.5
 11 Liberia: children from lowest and highest wealth quintiles 303 4.8 205 5.1 67.7 106.8
 17 Uganda: children from rural areas 1515 23.9 1000 24.9 66.0 104.2
 7 Angola, Ghana, and Zambia: children from mothers with secondary education and above 358 5.6 220 5.5 61.5 97.0
 13 Liberia: children from second and third quintiles 445 7.0 263 6.5 59.1 93.3
 9 Kenya and Madagascar: children from mothers with secondary education and above 111 1.8 63 1.6 56.8 89.6
 18 Angola, Ghana, and Zambia: children from mothers with primary or no education; children from lowest, fourth, and highest wealth quintiles 634 10.0 351 8.7 55.4 87.4
Cluster 3 912 14.4 410 10.2 45.0 70.9
 12 Liberia: children from the fourth wealth quintile 147 2.3 71 1.8 48.3 76.2
 19 Angola, Ghana, and Zambia: children from mothers with primary or no education; children from second and third wealth quintiles 388 6.1 176 4.4 45.4 71.6
 10 Kenya and Madagascar: children from mothers with primary or no education 377 5.9 163 4.1 43.2 68.2
Total 6337 100 4016 100 63.4 n/a

N number of children

aNumber of children who received any anti-malarial treatment per node (demographic size in the sample)

bDemographic size in percentage = (0.1/Σ0.1) × 100

cNumber of children who received prompt treatment with ACT

dDemographic size among children who received prompt treatment with ACT in percentage = (0.3/Σ0.3) × 100

eProportion of children who received prompt treatment with ACT out of those who received any anti-malarial medicine = (0.3/Σ0.1) × 100

fNode index = [(0.3/Σ3)/(0.1/Σ0.1)] × 100