Getting to zero: micro-foci of malaria in the Solomon Islands requires stratified control

Malaria Journal

Table 4 Final set of nested models evaluated to determine which best predicted the prevalence of Plasmodium DNA-positives

Model	df	AIC	∆AIC	wAIC	χ²	p value
Plasmodium falciparum
Village	19	183.91	7.31	0.0147
Village + Temperature	20	176.59	0.00	0.5694	9.31	0.0022*
Village + Temperature + Bed net use	21	177.22	0.63	0.4157	1.37	0.241
Plasmodium vivax
Village	19	253.64	23.87	< 0.0001
Village + Temperature	20	241.25	11.48	0.0023	14.39	0.0001*
Village + Temperature + Bed net use	21	231.74	1.97	0.2714	11.51	0.0007*
Village + Temperature + Bed net use + Gender	22	229.77	0.00	0.7261	3.98	0.0463*

Model comparison was made on the basis ∆AIC, wAIC and goodness-of-fit using maximum likelihood estimation. The full list of explanatory variables included village, gender, temperature, age, bed net use and malaria history

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