Assessing the impact of meteorological factors on malaria patients in demilitarized zones in Republic of Korea

Hwang, Se-Min; Yoon, Seok-Joon; Jung, Yoo-Mi; Kwon, Geun-Yong; Jo, Soo-Nam; Jang, Eun-Jeong; Kwon, Myoung-Ok

doi:10.1186/s40249-016-0111-3

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Table 3 Results of Granger causality tests of military malaria patients and meteorological factors of South Korea (2006–2011)

From: Assessing the impact of meteorological factors on malaria patients in demilitarized zones in Republic of Korea

Weather station	meterological factor	P-value of Granger causality tests for military malaria patients and meteorological factors by time lag*
Weather station	meterological factor	Lag1	Lag2	Lag3	Lag4	Lag5	Lag6	Lag7	Lag8	Lag9	Lag10	Lag11	Lag12
Munsan (Paju)	Average temperature	0.1552	0.0020	0.0689	0.0018	0.0004	0.0194	0.0526	0.0271	0.0105	0.0409	0.0281	0.1051
	Maximum temperature	0.1836	0.0075	0.0804	0.0002	0.0001	0.0062	0.0212	0.0111	0.0109	0.0499	0.0225	0.0842
	Minimum temperature	0.1971	0.0021	0.0675	0.0101	0.0021	0.0670	0.1252	0.0479	0.0165	0.0570	0.0412	0.2024
	Precipitation	0.7640	0.4208	0.9007	0.5159	0.4214	0.3370	0.2346	0.2490	0.7613	0.8176	0.6669	0.3958
	Snow depth	0.5503	0.6724	0.5912	0.1347	0.1493	0.4483	0.4807	0.5974	0.6531	0.8632	0.8522	0.8981
	Wind velocity	0.0027	0.0004	0.0021	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.0212	0.0823	0.1809	0.3732
	Relative humidity	0.1999	0.0204	0.1022	0.0876	0.0056	0.0563	0.2070	0.1778	0.7396	0.7500	0.5309	0.6492
	Duration of sunshine	0.8989	0.3776	0.4425	0.6541	0.6931	0.4450	0.5569	0.3409	0.6096	0.5021	0.1100	0.0784
	Cloud amount	0.7208	0.9018	0.7702	0.8680	0.8493	0.8807	0.9605	0.9686	0.9888	0.9932	0.9678	0.8256
Chuncheon (Hwacheon & Chuncheon)	Average temperature	0.0550	0.0010	0.0041	0.0003	0.0031	0.0025	0.0008	0.0010	0.0027	0.0077	0.0401	0.1715
	Maximum temperature	0.0583	0.0025	0.0086	0.0010	0.0042	0.0046	0.0020	0.0021	0.0058	0.0170	0.0732	0.2441
	Minimum temperature	0.0843	0.0008	0.0033	0.0002	0.0026	0.0016	0.0005	0.0005	0.0015	0.0048	0.0285	0.1447
	Precipitation	0.0150	0.0073	0.0186	0.0264	0.0496	0.1082	0.0391	0.0194	0.0273	0.0100	0.0511	0.1903
	Snow depth	0.1237	0.2803	0.1989	0.1360	0.1450	0.1084	0.0156	0.0362	0.0116	0.0101	0.0272	0.0468
	Wind velocity	0.1681	0.2643	0.4348	0.1426	0.1650	0.0121	0.0078	0.0131	0.0605	0.1219	0.3410	0.6275
	Relative humidity	0.3833	0.0109	0.0255	0.0193	0.0343	0.0470	0.0595	0.0318	0.0536	0.0554	0.1133	0.3923
	Duration of sunshine	0.6006	0.2905	0.4142	0.3966	0.5688	0.7007	0.7048	0.8026	0.8879	0.9511	0.9903	0.9995
	Cloud amount	0.0269	0.0418	0.0144	0.0220	0.0704	0.0630	0.2035	0.2135	0.1789	0.1825	0.2884	0.6158

* P-value < 0.05

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