Table 3 Mean distance error (km) per model on test data using those countries included in the training data.

Parasite	Region	Location	LIN-R	LOG-C	CNN-R	CNN-C
P. falciparum	West Africa	Benin	700	4	354	45
		Burkina Faso	374	96	161	88
		Gambia	775	132	317	107
		Ghana	401	48	193	52
		Guinea	751	515	459	402
		Ivory Coast	630	681	695	728
		Mali	563	345	208	271
		Mauritania	615	676	382	410
		Nigeria	1039	329	1169	329
		Senegal	1354	274	565	263
	East Africa	Kenya	693	200	297	117
		Tanzania	707	3	289	0
		Uganda	1198	1581	856	1856
	Horn of Africa	Ethiopia	568	0	124	0
	Central Africa	Cameroon	635	28	184	0
	SC Africa	DRC	477	2	34	0
	Southern Africa	Madagascar	490	6	1543	0
	Southern Africa	Malawi	968	432	1018	530
	SEA	Bangladesh	743	9	159	0
		Cambodia	312	18	112	21
		Laos	276	121	152	53
		Myanmar	360	10	559	0
		Thailand	247	7	39	7
		Vietnam	356	90	199	0
	South America	Colombia	2052	0	4832	0
	South America	Peru	1820	7	2535	0
	Oceania	PNG	488	0	697	0
	Mean		470	93	245	77
P. vivax	Horn of Africa	Ethiopia	334	0	142	0
	South Asia	India	500	0	517	0
	SEA	Cambodia	638	25	648	0
		China	2751	1033	704	1463
		Myanmar	616	311	350	311
		Thailand	604	0	288	0
		Vietnam	156	0	578	0
	SSEA	Malaysia	213	0	957	0
	South America	Brazil	3080	0	2773	6
		Colombia	1057	0	667	0
		Mexico	134	0	1502	0
		Peru	755	0	574	0
	Oceania	PNG	175	0	1103	0
	Mean		890	33	819	36

DRC Democratic Republic of Congo; PNG Papua New Guinea; CNN Convolutional Neural Network; LOG-C multinomial logistic regression classifier; CNN-C CNN deep learner classifier; LIN-R penalised linear regression model; CNN-R Penalised CNN regression model; SC South Central; SEA South East Asia; SSEA Southern SEA.

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