Modelling typhoid risk in Dhaka Metropolitan Area of Bangladesh: the role of socio-economic and environmental factors

Table 2 Correlation matrix between variables

	TEMP	NDVI	PURB	MHV	TLR	PCL	UNEMP	PSLUM	PDEN	HDEN
TEMP	1.000
NDVI	-0.797^**	1.000
PURB	0.830^**	-0.830^*	1.000
MHV	-0.536^**	0.498^**	0.690^**	1.000
TLR	-0.461^**	0.480^*	0.618^**	0.461^**	1.000
PCL	0.096^**	0.047	-0.153^**	0.307^**	0.089^**	1.000
UNEMP	0.167^**	-0.123^*	0.220^**	-0.358^**	-0.151^**	-0.905^**	1.000
PSLUM	0.106^**	-0.050	0.120^**	-0.038	-0.329^**	-0.536^**	-0.532^**	1.000
PDEN	0.476^**	-0.549^*	0.492^**	-0.238^**	-0.284^**	-0.073^*	0.121^**	0.062^*	1.000
HDEN	0.562^**	-0.590^**	0.561^**	-0.278^**	-0.311^**	-0.076^**	0.117^**	-0.049	0.857^**	1.000

** Statistically significant at 99% confidence level (2-tailed); * statistically significant at 95% confidence level (2-tailed); TEMP: temperature; NDVI: vegetation; PURB: percent urban land; MHV: median house value; TLR: total literacy rate; PCL: per capita land; UNEMP: percent unemployed; PSLUM: percent slum area; PDEN: population density; HDEN: housing density.

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