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Table 1 Mean, variance and index of dispersion of indoor and outdoor mosquito numbers in houses, along with the results of χ2 test of departure of index of dispersion from 1.0 for six vector populations

From: Vector composition, abundance, biting patterns and malaria transmission intensity in Madang, Papua New Guinea: assessment after 7 years of an LLIN-based malaria control programme

Village

Vector

Location

n

Mean

Var

ID

χ2

df

P

Bulal

An. koliensis

Indoor

10

5.0

62.7

12.5

112.8

9

< 0.001

  

Outdoor

10

2.0

12.7

6.3

57

9

< 0.001

Megiar

An. farauti s.s

Indoor

12

9.4

278.4

29.6

325.3

11

< 0.001

  

Outdoor

12

28.3

1199.3

42.3

465.6

11

< 0.001

Mirap

An. farauti s.s

Indoor

12

18.3

337.5

18.5

203.4

11

< 0.001

  

Outdoor

12

21.5

108.6

5.1

55.6

11

< 0.001

 

An. koliensis

Indoor

12

32.1

686.6

21.4

235.4

11

< 0.001

  

Outdoor

12

48.8

766.2

15.7

172.9

11

< 0.001

Wasab

An. koliensis

Indoor

12

18.25

195.1

10.7

117.6

11

< 0.001

  

Outdoor

12

37.5

1213.2

32.4

355.9

11

< 0.001

 

An. punctulatus s.s

Indoor

12

5.6

19.4

3.5

38.1

11

< 0.001

  

Outdoor

12

8.5

44.1

5.2

57.1

11

< 0.001

  1. Key: n, number of houses; Var, variance; ID, index of dispersion; df, degrees of freedom = n–1; P, p-values associated with the χ2 tests