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MOESM7 of Time series analysis of malaria in Afghanistan: using ARIMA models to predict future trends in incidence
journal contribution
posted on 2016-11-22, 05:00 authored by Mohammad Anwar, Joseph Lewnard, Sunil Parikh, Virginia PitzerAdditional file 7: Annex 2. Pairwise correlation between malaria ARIMA model residuals and external regressor residuals at different lags, after pre-whitening (removing trends and seasonality and fitting ARIMA models to each) (first table). In preliminary analyses, statistically significant correlation was observed between rain and humidity (r = 0.7032, p < 0.001); subsequently, humidity was dropped after it was found not to add meaningful information. Had we not performed pre-whitening, statistically significant correlations existed between malaria and other variables at every lag we analyzed.