Using mixed effects logistic regression models for complex survey data on malaria rapid diagnostic test results

Malaria Journal

Table 2 Type III tests for fixed effects

Effects	Num DF	Den DF	F value	P-value
Region	5	314	6.70	< 0.0001
Mother’s education	3	494	4.97	0.0021
Child’s age	4	1151	53.14	< 0.0001
Child’s anaemia status	1	305	185.47	< 0.0001
Age of household head	1	4868	4.59	0.0322
Toilet facility	2	285	12.40	< 0.0001
Number of household members	1	4868	8.04	0.0046
Cluster altitude in metres	1	71	0.63	< 0.0001
Availability of electricity	1	61	0.79	0.0457
Sex of a child	1	320	1.26	0.2627
Prior child’s fever status	1	4868	89.96	< 0.0001
Distance from water source	3	354	0.19	0.9000
Mosquito indoor spray	1	30	0.12	0.7292
Number of mosquito nets used	1	4868	0.28	0.5967
Child slept under bed net	1	285	0.18	0.6683
Number of rooms	1	4868	0.22	0.6423
Household’s main floor	2	331	1.84	0.1610
Households’s main wall	2	228	1.44	0.2395
Household’s main roof	2	230	6.40	0.0012
Households’s wealth index	4	466	1.74	0.1430
Availability of television	1	190	0.05	0.8302
Gender of head of household	1	148	0.67	0.4132
Place of residence	1	314	13.55	0.0003
Source of drinking water	2	255	1.87	0.1555
Number of household members * age of head of household	1	4868	5.09	0.0241
Gender * age of head of household	1	4868	2.76	0.0967
Wealth index * type of residence	4	466	2.49	0.0424
Region * type of place of residence	5	314	1.95	0.0862

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