Effect of meteorological factors on clinical malaria risk among children: an assessment using village-based meteorological stations and community-based parasitological survey

Table 3 Meteorological variables, their transformation powers and functional forms used in deriving estimates for the association with clinical malaria risk

Variables (degree)	Variables (power)	Transformation functions
Average temperature (Second degree)	Tmean_1 (-2)	${(\frac{T m e a n}{10})}^{- 2} - 0.1201$
	Tmean_2 (0.5)	${(\frac{T m e a n}{10})}^{0.5} - 0.1699$
Rainfall (Second degree)	Pmm_1 (2)	${(\frac{P m m + 0.3000}{100})}^{2} - 0.1261$
	Pmm_2 (2)	${(\frac{P m m + 0.3000}{100})}^{2} * \ln (\frac{P m m + 0.3000}{100}) + 0.1306$
Relative humidity (Second degree)	RH_1 (-1)	${(\frac{R H}{10})}^{- 1} * \ln (\frac{R H}{10}) - 0.3332$
	RH_2 (-1)	${(\frac{R H}{10})}^{- 1} * \ln (\frac{R H}{10}) - 0.3332$
Rainfall and humidity (first degree)	PmmRH (-1)	${(\frac{P m m R H + 2.46999741}{10000})}^{- 1} - 3.971$
Temperature and humidity (first degree)	TRH (1)	TRH - 1305
Temperature and rainfall (first degree)	TPmm (1)	TPmm - 989.7

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