Table 3 Regression results.

From: Global Disease Outbreaks Associated with the 2015–2016 El Niño Event

Region

Disease

Dependent variable

Estimated Coefficient (95% Confidence Interval)

Adjusted R2

Annual Rainfall Anomaly

Annual LST Anomaly

Colorado & New Mexico

Hantavirus

Annual count of reports

−0.39 (−1.34, 0.56)

−0.54 (−1.32, 0.23)

0.15

Colorado & New Mexico

Plague

Annual count of reports

0.90 (0.01, 1.79)*

0.26 (−0.46, 0.99)

0.29

Tanzania

Cholera

Annual count of cases

0.79 (0.23, 1.35)*

0.15 (−0.36, 0.68)

0.32

Brazil & SE Asia

Dengue

Annual count of casesa and reportsb

0.27 (−0.08, 0.61)

0.52 (0.12, 0.92)*

0.53

  1. * indicates significance at p < 0.05; afor Brazil; bfor SE Asia region.