Table 1.

The distance correlation among the functional covariates and the response at week n + 1 and n + 2 ^d.

Functional Covariates	Incidence (n + 1)	Incidence (n + 2)
fIncidence (n − 17, …, n)	0.256	0.220
fWindspeed (n − 17, …, n)	0.357	0.350
fRainNb (n − 17, …, n)	0.363	0.390
fTemperature (n − 17, …, n)	0.267	0.240
fHumidity (n − 17, …, n)	0.404	0.420

^d In Dangassa, malaria incidence is influenced in order of relevance by fHumidity (0.404 and 0.420), by fRainNb (0.363 and 0.390), by fWindspeed (0.357 and 0.350), and finally by fTemperature (0.267 and 0.240) and fIncidence (0.256 and 0.220). We discovered that there is no strong temporal dependence in the malaria incidence rate.