Scrub typhus islands in the Taiwan area and the association between scrub typhus disease and forest land use and farmer population density: geographically weighted regression

Table 2 Correlations between the monthly incidences and meteorological factors for scrub typhus in 10 local climate regions of Taiwan (2002–2011)

Local climate regions	Surface temperature^b	Precipitation^c	Relative humidity^b	Atmospheric pressure^b	Wet days^d	Sunshine duration^c
	(°C)	(mm)	(%)	(hBa)	(>0.1 mm/day)	(hour)
Northern Taiwan	0.182	−0.02	−0.09	−0.14	−0.12	0.213
Northwestern Taiwan	0.016	−0.09	−0.243*	0.00	−0.14	0.16
Central Western Taiwan	0.475*	0.249*	0.00	−0.450*	0.12	0.400*
Southwestern Taiwan	0.422*	0.279*	0.276*	−0.411*	0.381*	0.16
Northeastern Taiwan	−0.176	−0.07	−0.10	0.14	0.00	−0.08
Southeastern Taiwan	0.202	0.16	−0.08	−0.09	0.01	0.18
Mountainous Area	0.187	0.14	0.07	−0.16	0.12	0.04
Pescadore Islands	0.370*	0.15	0.08	−0.316*	0.15	0.188
Kinmen Islands^a	0.623*	0.354*	0.567*	−0.630*	0.11	0.473*
Matou Islands^a	0.583*	0.00	0.18	−0.535*	−0.227	0.592*

* p < 0.01.
^a indicates that available data from 2004 to 2011 was used for this variable.
^bThe averaged value was calculated for each month.
^cThe value was accumulated for every day in a month.
^dThe measured value all day long was larger than 0.1 mm (defined as one wet day), and dry otherwise.

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