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Table 3 Association between Legionnaires’ disease hospitalizations and meteorological variables in the most highly weighted models

From: The effect of seasonal and extreme floods on hospitalizations for Legionnaires’ disease in the United States, 2000–2011

Model

Precipitation

Soil moisture

Temperature

Runoff

Flood count

Model weight

1

0.26 (0.14, 0.38)

0.49 (0.24, 0.74)

 

− 0.08 (− 0.16, 0.00)

 

0.261

2

0.28 (0.16, 0.40)

0.48 (0.23, 0.73)

 

− 0.07 (− 0.13, − 0.01)

− 0.03 (− 0.11, 0.05)

0.176

3

0.19 (0.01, 0.29)

0.44 (0.20, 0.68)

   

0.133

4

0.23 (0.13, 0.33)

0.42 (0.17, 0.67)

  

− 0.04 (− 0.10, 0.02)

0.125

5

0.26 (0.14, 0.38)

0.47 (0.20, 0.74)

− 1.28 (− 6.49, 3.93)

− 0.08 (− 0.16, 0.00)

 

0.104

6

0.28 (0.16, 0.40)

0.50 (0.23, 0.77)

− 1.27 (− 6.54, 4.00)

− 0.07 (− 0.13, − 0.01)

− 0.04 (− 0.10, 0.02)

0.070

7

0.19 (0.01, 0.29)

0.42 (0.17, 0.67)

− 1.31 (− 6.74, 4.12)

  

0.053

  1. Effect estimates are the change in monthly hospitalizations associated with a 1-standard deviation increase in the meteorological variables; values in parentheses indicate the 95% confidence interval