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Table 3 Summary for the terms tested for association with female mosquito hourly abundance

From: The mosquito electrocuting trap as an exposure-free method for measuring human-biting rates by Aedes mosquito vectors

Explanatory variable

Aedes aegypti females ♀

Culex quinquefasciatus females ♀

χ2

df

P

χ2

df

P

Trap type

0.60

1

0.44

7e-04

1

0.98

Time (linear)

na

na

na

na

na

na

Time (quadratic)

8.70

1

< 0.01*

142.1

1

< 0.001*

Temperature

na

na

na

2.07

1

0.15

Relative humidity

na

na

na

0.09

1

0.77

Temperature × Humiditya

6.60

1

0.01*

0.09

1

0.76

  1. *Significant values
  2. aFixed effect indicating interaction term
  3. Notes: Chi-square (χ2), degrees of freedom (df) and P-values are provided for females of each species. “na” indicates “not applicable” values for which single term significance was not possible because of their involvement in significant higher order terms