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Table 2 Performance analysis of control strategies, both isolated and combined, based on the levels of significance of each study (p-value)

From: Meta-analysis of studies on chemical, physical and biological agents in the control of Aedes aegypti

 

Strategies

Statistics

Biological

Chemical

Integrated

Global

Number of studies

5a

5b

12

22

Chi-square (w)

72.5071

57.2704

140.0351

277.3397

Degrees of freedom

10

10

24

44

p-value (w)

<0.0001

< 0.0001

< 0.0001

< 0.0001

  1. aFor the small amount of articles (<5) for the biological subgroup meta-analysis, an article about fish x educational campaign was considered as biological
  2. bOne of the studies tested permethrin Cis and Beta, providing two p-values. The two values were used for the meta-analysis of subgroups (covering 4–5 articles)
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