Table 1 Initial model selection.

From: Association of air pollution and weather conditions during infection course with COVID-19 case fatality rate in the United Kingdom

No

Model

AIC

BIC

Log-likelihood

1

\(\alpha +{\alpha }^{k}+\delta {W}_{t}\)

Baseline (regional random effect)

2967

2990

-1475

2

\(\alpha +{\alpha }^{k}+\delta {W}_{t}+f(S)\)

Regional random effect and sunlight duration

650

708

-301

3

\(\alpha +{\alpha }^{k}+\delta {W}_{t}+f\left(S\right)+f(T)\)

Regional random effect, temperature, and sunlight duration

595

690

-258

4

\(\alpha +{\alpha }^{k}+\delta {W}_{t}+f\left(S\right)+f\left(T\right)+f(S{O}_{2})\)

Regional random effect, temperature, sunlight duration and sulfur dioxide

581

705

-238

5

\(\alpha +{\alpha }^{k}+\delta {W}_{t}+f\left(S\right)+f\left(T\right)+f(P{M}_{10})\)

Regional random effect, temperature, sunlight duration and particular matter \((\le 10)\) μm

579

713

-234

6

\(\alpha +{\alpha }^{k}+\delta {W}_{t}+f\left(S\right)+f\left(T\right)+f(P{M}_{2.5})\)

Regional random effect, temperature, sunlight duration and particular matter \((\le 2.5)\) μm

578

712

-233

7

\(\alpha +{\alpha }^{k}+\delta {W}_{t}+f\left(S\right)+f\left(T\right)+f(P{M}_{2.5})+\gamma {H}_{t-\left({t}_{1}+{t}_{2}\right)}^{k}\)

Regional random effect, temperature, sunlight duration, particular matter \((\le 2.5)\) μm and humidity

579

715

-232

  1. AIC and BIC represent Akaike information criterion and Bayesian information criteria, respectively. All candidate models were adjusted for the days of the week.