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. 2021 Feb 8;104(4):1359–1370. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-1211

Table 2.

Risk factors and their relative importance, grouped by variable types

Variable type Variable (group)* Importance (%)
Hydrology and habitat Distance to lake 24.4
Distance to river 10.6
Weighted N. water ponds 9.2
Weighted N. habitats, dry season 8.6
Weighted N. habitats, rainy season 6.9
N. water ponds 3.0
Subtotal 62.7
Ground and soil property Ground surface roughness 7.9
Valley bottom flatness 5.0
Soil coarse fragments volumetric 2.7
Soil water capacity 1.7
Subtotal 17.3
Vegetation coverage EVI, February 1.2
EVI, May 3.7
EVI, December 3.3
NDVI, April 1.2
NDVI, May 1.3
NDVI, September 1.8
NDVI, October 2.8
Subtotal 15.3
Others No. of nets per household 2.6
Land surface temperature daytime, February 2.2
*

EVI = enhanced vegetation index; NDVI = normalized difference vegetation index.