Table 2.
Cross correlation coefficients between environment factors and the malaria incidence among high transmission settings of Uganda 2019–2020
| Site | Environmental variables | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temperature | Rain fall | NDVI | |||||||
| Optimal | Lag 1 | Lag 4 | optimal | Lag 1 | Lag 4 | optimal | Lag 1 | Lag 4 | |
| Aduku HC | −0.417 (−1)* | − 0.417 | 0.366 | 0.511 (− 1)* | 0.511 | − 0.113 | 0.620 (− 1)* | 0.620 | − 0.299 |
| Awach HC | 0.496 (−4)* | − 0.301 | 0.496 | 0.416 (−1)* | 0.416 | −0.335 | 0.471 (−1)* | 0.471 | −0.617 |
| Lalogi HC | 0.613 (−4)* | −0.274 | 0.613 | 0.458 (−1)* | 0.458 | −0.510 | −0.717 (−4)* | 0.243 | − 0.717 |
| Patongo HC | 0.481 (−4)* | −0.424 | 0.481 | 0.485 (−1)* | 0.485 | −0.205 | 0.453 (−1)* | 0.453 | −0.559 |
| Padibe HC | −0.566 (−1)* | − 0.566 | 0.477 | 0.731 (−1)* | 0.731 | −0.120 | 0.426 (−1)* | 0.426 | −0.555 |
| Namokora HC | −0.668 (−1)* | − 0.668 | 0.411 | 0.651 (−1)* | 0.617 | −0.009 | 0.609 (−1)* | 0.609 | −0.460 |
| Lobule HC | −0.466 (−1)* | − 0.466 | 0.334 | 0.526 (−1)* | 0.551 | −0.195 | 0.534 (−1)* | 0.525 | −0.336 |
| All-sites combined | 0.452 (−4)* | −0.302 | 0.452 | 0.403 (−1)* | 0.403 | −0.160 | −0.454 (−4)* | 0.275 | − 0.454 |
NDVI Normalized difference vegetation index