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Table 6 Covariate comparison for modeling Pf PR in Africa

From: Re-examining environmental correlates of Plasmodium falciparum malaria endemicity: a data-intensive variable selection approach

Dataset

Metric

New

Old

Training

AIC

167553.4

208208.9

Training

RMSE

18.315

21.928

Training

R2(count)

0.7251

0.6088

Training

R2(ratio)

0.3970

0.2309

Training

Pseudo R2

0.5102

0.3739

Reserve

RMSE

18.228

19.097

Reserve

R 2 (count)

0.6266

0.5608

Reserve

R 2 (ratio)

0.3633

0.2382

Reserve

Pseudo R 2

0.5174

0.4356

  1. The comparison between the newly created covariates and the covariates used to create the MAP 2010 global product. Statistics for the reserve dataset are shown in italics.