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. 2021 Jan 4;193(1):29. doi: 10.1007/s10661-020-08810-4

Table 3.

Model fitting results derived from the Geographical Weighted Regression (GWR) showing the relationship between the COVID-19 infection rate (dependent variable) and 17 independent variables

Theme Parameters (independent) Model fitting results (COVID-19 as dependent variable)
Estimated coefficient Standard error T p value R2
Air pollutant PM2.5 0.645 0.295 2.187 0.029 .84
NO2 0.112 0.305 0.368 0.713
AOT 0.816 0.322 2.531 0.011
SO2 0.200 0.416 0.481 0.630
CO − 0.562 0.296 − 1.900 0.057
Water vapor − 3.043 0.784 − 3.881 0.015
O3 2.257 0.556 4.059 0.013
Geo-meteorological DEM 0.361 0.105 3.428 0.012 .73
Wind pressure − 0.260 0.162 − 1.604 0.015
LST 0.236 0.126 1.883 0.040
Rainfall 0.439 0.163 2.693 0.017
Wind speed 0.212 0.102 2.077 0.038
Social Pop density 0.318 0.116 2.738 0.016 .70
Brickfield 0.212 0.095 2.233 0.026
Poverty − 0.283 0.119 − 2.382 0.017
Land use 0.165 0.104 1.591 0.112
Literacy 0.047 0.098 0.481 0.630