Estimated distribution of malaria cases among children in sub-Saharan Africa by specified age categories using data from the Global Burden of Diseases 2019

Table 1 Proportion of malaria cases overall by age interval

Age category of interest^a	Empirical (%)	Gamma (%)	Weibull (%)	Log-normal (%)	Exponential (%)
0 to < 1	0.060	0.076	0.079	0.055	0.081
1 to < 5	0.343	0.262	0.262	0.344	0.263
5 to < 10	0.172	0.229	0.227	0.227	0.226
10 to < 15	0.143	0.151	0.149	0.119	0.148
15 to < 20	0.090	0.099	0.098	0.070	0.097
20–95	0.192	0.184	0.185	0.170	0.185

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