Research Article
Assessment of Risk Factors Associated with Malaria Transmission in Tubu Village, Northern Botswana
Table 2
Associations between various risk factors for malaria transmission in Tubu village determined by the Fischer and Pearson
test.
| Risk factor | P value |
| Malaria episode versus period outdoors | 0.051* | Household income versus malaria episode | 0.018** | Malaria episode versus farming status | 0.391 | Malaria episode versus distance from water body | 0.036** | Eave size versus mosquito bites | 0.887+ | Eave size versus frequency of mosquito bites | 0.900 | Eave size versus time of mosquito bites | 0.746 | Malaria episode versus number of nets possessed | 0.496 |
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Significant association.
*Borderline association.
+Obtained from Fischer’s exact test; the rest were obtained from Pearson’s test.
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