Table 3.
Empirical results of nonlinear correlation between COVID-19 and meteorological parameters
| Parameters | Kendall’s tau_b | Spearman’s rho | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daily cases | Daily deaths | Daily recovered | Daily cases | Daily deaths | Daily recovered | |||||||
| .124** | <0.01 | .217** | <0.01 | .141** | <0.01 | .175** | <0.01 | .305** | <0.01 | .199** | <0.01 | |
| .348** | <0.01 | .439** | <0.01 | .375** | <0.01 | .504** | <0.01 | .634** | <0.01 | .549** | <0.01 | |
| .258** | <0.01 | .356** | <0.01 | .280** | <0.01 | .381** | <0.01 | .522** | <0.01 | .418** | <0.01 | |
| Rain | .284** | <0.01 | .354** | <0.01 | .283** | <0.01 | .401** | <0.01 | .493** | <0.01 | .390** | <0.01 |
| RH | .137** | <0.01 | .116** | <0.01 | .183** | <0.01 | .206** | <0.01 | .182** | <0.01 | .269** | <0.01 |
| AH | .291** | <0.01 | .343** | <0.01 | .335** | <0.01 | .424** | <0.01 | .509** | <0.01 | .503** | <0.01 |
| WV | .296** | <0.01 | .351** | <0.01 | .338** | <0.01 | .431** | <0.01 | .521** | <0.01 | .509** | <0.01 |
| AQ | -.281** | <0.01 | -.337** | <0.01 | -.245** | <0.01 | -.422** | <0.01 | -.512** | <0.01 | -.375** | <0.01 |
| AP | -.328** | <0.01 | -.406** | <0.01 | -.320** | <0.01 | -.481** | <0.01 | -.588** | <0.01 | -.477** | <0.01 |
| WS | .127** | <0.01 | .170** | <0.01 | .082** | .002 | .171** | <0.01 | .235** | <0.01 | .115** | .002 |
| Cloud | .338** | <0.01 | .371** | <0.01 | .287** | <0.01 | .491** | <0.01 | .541** | <0.01 | .423** | <0.01 |
**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)
*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)