Assessing Weather Effects on Dengue Disease in Malaysia
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Data
Variables (unit) | Mean | Standard deviation | Minimum | Percentiles | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
25th | 50th | 75th | 100th | ||||
Daily total dengue cases | 29.4 | 13.7 | 1.0 | 20.0 | 28.0 | 38.0 | 117.0 |
Daily minimum temperature (°C) | 24.2 | 1.0 | 20.4 | 23.5 | 24.0 | 24.9 | 27.0 |
Daily maximum temperature (°C) | 32.9 | 1.6 | 25.4 | 32.0 | 33.0 | 34.0 | 36.4 |
Daily mean temperature (°C) | 27.8 | 1.3 | 23.3 | 26.9 | 27.8 | 28.8 | 31.3 |
Daily relative humidity (%) | 78.0 | 6.0 | 59.9 | 73.6 | 78.5 | 82.6 | 93.5 |
Cumulative bi-weekly rainfall (mm) | 117.4 | 72.9 | 1.3 | 55.6 | 108.2 | 170.4 | 329.2 |
Daily mean wind speed (knots) | 2.9 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 3.4 | 6.2 |
2.3. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Best Model Selection and Validation
3.2. Association of Temperature and Dengue
3.3. Association between Rainfall and Dengue
3.4. Association of Wind Speed and Dengue
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Cheong YL, Burkart K, Leitão PJ, Lakes T. Assessing Weather Effects on Dengue Disease in Malaysia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2013; 10(12):6319-6334. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph10126319
Chicago/Turabian StyleCheong, Yoon Ling, Katrin Burkart, Pedro J. Leitão, and Tobia Lakes. 2013. "Assessing Weather Effects on Dengue Disease in Malaysia" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 10, no. 12: 6319-6334. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph10126319