Effect of Meteorological and Geographical Factors on the Epidemics of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in Island-Type Territory, East Asia

Table 2

Parameter estimates of linear terms in general additive model (GAM).

Variable	Estimate	Standard error	value
Latitude	0.0465	0.0020	<0.0001^*
Mean temperature	0.0031	0.0063	0.5917
Dew point	0.0566	0.0060	<0.0001^*
Visibility	−0.0066	0.0023	0.0037^*
Wind speed	−0.0514	0.0118	<0.0001^*
Total precipitation	0.0018	0.0021	0.4100

value < 0.05.