A supervised land cover classification of a western Kenya lowland endemic for human malaria: associations of land cover with larval Anopheles habitats

Table 3 Number of observed and expected larval Anopheles habitats by land cover type in a rural lowland in western Kenya.

Land cover	Observed habitat counts (%)	Expected habitat counts (%)	χ²	P
Mature Maize	336 (28)	172 (14)	156.37	***
Grassland	294 (25)	255 (21)	5.96	NS
Newly cultivated fields	187 (15)	129 (11)	24.31	**
Short shrubs	90 (7)	174 (15)	40.55	***
Medium shrubs	152 (13)	194 (16)	9.09	NS
Tall shrubs	103 (9)	156 (13)	18.01	**
Bare land	38 (3)	118 (10)	54.24	***
Total	1198 (100)	1198 (100)

*** indicates differences of chi squared test at significance level of P < 0.001.
** At significance level of P < 0.01.
* At significance level of P < 0.05.
NS-not significant

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