From: Improving dengue fever predictions in Taiwan based on feature selection and random forests
 | Occurrence of dengue fever | p value | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Yes (n = 531) | No (n = 264) | |||
Variable | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Â |
Temperature (°C) | 26.22 | 4.06 | 22.83 | 4.20 | < 0.0001*** |
UV index | 6.68 | 2.60 | 5.96 | 2.03 | < 0.0001*** |
Rainfall (mm) | 9.76 | 36.15 | 3.62 | 13.25 | 0.0078** |
Atmospheric pressure (hPa) | 1010.50 | 6.03 | 1013.80 | 4.00 | < 0.0001*** |
BI | 3.72 | 2.89 | 2.45 | 2.00 | < 0.0001*** |
HI | 2.93 | 2.06 | 2.08 | 1.58 | < 0.0001*** |
LI | 41.84 | 54.02 | 28.28 | 26.75 | < 0.0001*** |
PM10 (μg/m3) | 60.30 | 30.31 | 73.87 | 29.32 | < 0.0001*** |
PM2.5 (μg/m3) | 27.38 | 17.67 | 36.64 | 19.66 | < 0.0001*** |
Relative humidity (%) | 74.19 | 6.33 | 71.91 | 6.40 | < 0.0001*** |
Wind speed (m/s) | 2.49 | 0.84 | 2.63 | 0.76 | 0.0291* |