. 2018 Oct 5;17:351. doi: 10.1186/s12936-018-2499-7

Table 2.

The effect of categorical variables within a 10 m radius of the sampling points on the number of Anopheles mosquitoes caught in resting clay pots, as shown by Kruskal–Wallis test followed by Wilcoxon pair wise comparison method

Category	Number	Density of mosquitoes
Category	Number	Males	Females
Land cover
Banana	69	0.72^a	4.04^a
Bare	12	0.08^b	0.33^b
Cotton	5	0.00^b	0.00^b
Grass	12	0.00^b	0.33^b
Maize	29	0.17^ab	1.24^b
Mixed	51	0.21^ab	0.51^b
Ploughed	13	0.00^b	0.15^b
Shrub	9	0.00^b	0.22^b
P-value		0.002	0.000
Shading
Open	85	0.04^a	0.14^a
Partial	41	0.12^a	1.29^b
Shaded	74	0.80^b	3.89^c
P-value		0.000	0.000
Distance category
Within 5 m	40	0.3	0.32^a
Within 25 m	40	0.13	0.73^ac
Within 50 m	40	0.25	2.15^bc
Within 75 m	40	0.57	2.55^b
Within 100 m	40	0.43	3.08^b
P-value		0.429	0.0115

^abcValues within each category in the same column, followed by the same letter are not significantly different (P > 0.05)