Research Article

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

Table 4

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

Statistical methodConfigurationEnvironmental variablesCorrelation value

PearsonOutdoorTmin (°C)0.604<0.05
Tmax (°C)0.594<0.05
Tav (°C)0.604<0.05
RHmin (%)−0.467<0.05
RHmax (%)−0.465<0.05
RHav (%)−0.479<0.05

Kendall’s tau-bOutdoorTmin (°C)0.526<0.05
Tmax (°C)0.518<0.05
Tav (°C)0.518<0.05
RHmin (%)−0.402<0.05
RHmax (%)−0.390<0.05
RHav (%)−0.405<0.05

SpearmanOutdoorTmin (°C)0.717<0.05
Tmax (°C)0.718<0.05
Tav (°C)0.721<0.05
RHmin (%)−0.588<0.05
RHmax (%)−0.571<0.05
RHav (%)−0.594<0.05