Geographically weighted regression of land cover determinants of Plasmodium falciparum transmission in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

Table 3 Global model of a semi-parametric geographically weighted Poisson regression, assuming all parameters are spatially homogenous

Variable	Incidence rate ratio	95% confidence interval		P-value
Intercept	0.01	0.01	0.02	<0.001
Banana^¶	1.06	0.99	1.15	0.10
Built-up areas^¶	0.80	0.74	0.86	<0.001
Cacao^†	0.98	0.88	1.09	0.68
Deforested areas^§	1.01	0.93	1.10	0.83
Forest^†	0.94	0.84	1.05	0.26
Oranges^§	1.10	1.03	1.17	<0.01
Palm trees^§	0.99	0.90	1.10	0.91
Swampy areas^§	0.98	0.90	1.07	0.60
Water^†	0.96	0.87	1.06	0.45
Ethnic group: Northerners	1.02	0.92	1.13	0.68
Financial situation^¥	0.83	0.76	0.90	<0.001
Mosquito protection^¤	0.84	0.78	0.91	<0.001
Mother’s education^£	0.83	0.77	0.89	<0.001
Mother’s occupation^¢	1.38	1.28	1.48	<0.001
SP-arm^μ	0.93	0.87	0.99	0.019

Categories: ^§10%, ^¶20%, ^†not present/present, ^¥good financial situation, ^¤uses bed-net/fly-screen, ^£at least secondary school education, ^¢mother works as a farmer, ^μIPTi with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine.

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