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( a) The fitted monotonic increasing functions to cumulative malaria episodes against age for all children (grey) who left the study at 15 years of age, with the mean fitted line (black) to all children. ( b) The first derivative of the fitted monotonic functions in ( a), considered as the number of episodes each child experiences in a year.
