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. 2018 Dec 24;11(Suppl 2):656. doi: 10.1186/s13071-018-3221-x

Table 2.

Results for the goodness-of-fit of the data to a probability distribution function. P-values are provided for each test

Species/Strain Batch S-W K-S
Males Females Mixture
P-value P-value P-value
An. arabiensis Dongola 1 0.7334 0.7329 0.9094
2 0.7290 0.2108 0.7998
3 0.9345 0.0102* 0.4434
Ae. albopictus Rimini 1 0.1545 0.3109 0.9730
2 0.0526 0.6420 0.6992
3 0.0021* 0.3856 0.8665
Ae. polynesiensis (Aito (BC9) 1 0.3576 0.0488 0.9371
2 0.7452 0.3139 0.9556
3 0.6154 0.5026 0.7538
Ae. aegypti GSS 1 0.6916 0.2393 0.7966
2 0.1250 0.9713 0.9872
3 0.4354 0.7882 0.9726
Ae. aegypti Sri Lanka 1 0.4785 0.5730 0.9305
2 0.6273 0.8647 0.976
3 0.7664 0.3403 0.9897
Ae. aegypti WB2-BRA 1 0.1064 0.1099 0.7892
2 0.3019 0.1325 0.9840
3 0.6914 0.0480 0.5103

Abbreviations: S-W, Shapiro-Wilk test for the test of normality of the distributions of each sex; K-S, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for the fit to a mixture of normal distributions