Research Article

The Effect of Humidity and Temperature on Indoor and Outdoor COVID-19 Infections

Table 3

Pearson, Kendall’s tau-b, and Spearman correlations between meteorological factors and COVID-19-infected cases for indoor configuration.

Statistical methodConfigurationEnvironmental variablesCorrelation value

PearsonIndoorTmin (°C)0.1270.206
Tmax (°C)0.2000.045
Tav (°C)0.1780.076
RHmin (%)0.0520.608
RHmax (%)0.0730.466
RHav (%)0.0770.445

Kendall’s tau-bIndoorTmin (°C)0.0330.684
Tmax (°C)0.0960.231
Tav (°C)0.0780.331
RHmin (%)0.0900.290
RHmax (%)0.1290.130
RHav (%)0.1120.169

SpearmanIndoorTmin (°C)0.0380.708
Tmax (°C)0.1160.249
Tav (°C)0.0930.357
RHmin (%)0.1070.287
RHmax (%)0.1520.129
RHav (%)0.1370.172