Table 1

Summary statistics of the different climate and land cover variables that could affect malaria incidence in Burundi

Variable		Summary statistics
Response	Explanatory	edf	P value	ΔAIC
Rainfall	Seasonal	8.8	<0.0001	1889
Rainfall	Time	1.9	<0.0001	83
Day temperature	Seasonal	7.9	<0.0001	3488
Day temperature	Time	1.9	<0.0001	245
Night temperature	Seasonal	7.7	<0.0001	1323
Night temperature	Time	1.9	<0.0001	353
LC10	Time	1.1	<0.0001	−42*
LC30	Time	1	0.0002	−9.7*
LC40	Time	1.2	<0.0001	−22*

*Indicates that the model without the explanatory variable was preferred based on ΔAIC values.
AIC, Akaike information criterion; edf, effective df.