Table 2.

Malaria hotspots detected by the elliptic scan

Period	Na	X b	Y b	Axis in km (major/minor)	Number of households	RR c	P value
HighH	1	595,099	1,395,750	1.09/1.09	38	1.84	< 0.001
	2	604,229	1,401,150	0.00/0.00	1	6.90	0.002
	3	614,102	1,400,450	1.12/0.56	12	2.27	0.003
	4	587,828	1,403,520	6.01/2.00	255	1.30	0.011
	5	598,740	1,399,110	0.31/0.15	2	4.90	0.015
InterI	1	586,028	1,400,300	3.28/3.28	211	1.50	0.001
	2	611,969	1,397,070	7.09/2.36	43	1.94	0.028
LowL	1	595,715	1,395,570	2.67/1.78	82	2.15	< 0.001
	2	581,892	1,401,070	1.82/0.61	13	3.69	< 0.001

L Low transmission periods

I intermediate transmission periods

H high transmission periods

^aNumber of hotspots for each period

^bCentroid coordinates of hotspots (UTM zone 30)

^cRR (Relative risk)