Table 1 Overall characteristics of the study population, training dataset, and testing dataset

From: Smartphone conjunctiva photography for malaria risk stratification in asymptomatic school age children

 

Total

Training

Testing

p-value

Number of photos

4302

3067

1235

 

Number of participants

405

283

122

 

Age [years] (mean ± standard deviation)

10.45 ± 3.08

10.41 ± 3.09

10.51 ± 3.06

0.760

Sex [males] (%)

213 (52.59%)

147 (51.94%)

66 (54.10%)

0.772

RDT [positives] (%)

128 (31.60%)

90 (31.80%)

38 (31.15%)

0.989

Blood Hgb [g dL–1] (mean ± standard deviation)

10.23 ± 1.64

10.21 ± 1.66

10.25 ± 1.62

0.834

Body temperature [°C] (mean ± standard deviation)

37.81 ± 0.82

37.80 ± 0.82

37.82 ± 0.83

0.811

  1. p-values are calculated using t-tests between the training and testing datasets.
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