Table 2.

Rainfall, temperature and EVI lags in relation to malaria cases in the four zones

	Estimate	Std. error	Z value	p value
Highland
Rainfall (lag 1)	−0.0004	0.00047	−0.871	0.3838
Rainfall (lag 2)	0.0009	0.00045	2.078	0.0378*
Temperature (lag 1)	0.0387	0.01700	2.278	0.0227*
EVI (lag 0)	0.6225	1.08295	0.575	0.5654
EVI (lag 1)	1.6205	1.27888	1.267	0.2051
EVI (lag 2)	−1.3151	0.91188	−1.442	0.1493
MID-altitude
Rainfall (lag 1)	−0.0012	0.00121	−0.964	0.3352
Rainfall (lag 2)	0.0025	0.00080	3.140	0.0017**
Temperature (lag 1)	0.0074	0.02860	0.259	0.7954
EVI (lag 0)	0.3339	1.14059	0.293	0.7697
Lowland
Rainfall (lag 0)	0.0013	0.00100	1.299	0.1938
Rainfall (lag 1)	0.0010	0.00127	0.810	0.4179
Rainfall (lag 2)	0.0018	0.00089	2.026	0.0427*
Temperature (lag 0)	0.0547	0.03213	1.703	0.0886
EVI (lag 0)	−1.5132	1.43254	−1.056	0.2908
Riverine
Rainfall (lag 1)	0.0005	0.00070	0.746	0.4553
Rainfall (lag 2)	0.0016	0.00080	1.966	0.0493*
Temperature (lag 0)	0.0631	0.02262	2.788	0.0053**
Temperature (lag 1)	−0.0120	0.02784	−0.431	0.6662
EVI (lag 1)	−0.7258	1.77546	−0.409	0.6827
EVI (lag 2)	0.6631	1.14723	0.578	0.5633

Significance codes: * p value ≤0.05, ** p value ≤0.01