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Table 1 Trend in monthly malaria cases during 2005–2014 period

From: “We don’t want our clothes to smell smoke”: changing malaria control practices and opportunities for integrated community-based management in Baringo, Kenya

	Lowland zone		Riverine zone
Months	Tau	p	Tau	p
January	0.02	1.00	0.42	0.11
February	−0.11	0.72	0.29	0.29
March	0.02	1.00	0.67	0.0092**
April	0.02	1.00	0.69	0.0073**
May	0.02	1.00	0.73	0.0042**
June	0.02	1.00	0.56	0.032*
July	−0.20	0.47	−0.07	0.866
August	−0.38	0.15	0.09	0.79
September	−0.07	0.86	0.20	0.47
October	−0.20	0.47	0.56	0.032*
November	−0.11	0.72	0.33	0.21
December	−0.02	1.00	0.49	0.059+

Notes: p is the significance level: ‘+’ 0.1, ‘*’ 0.05, ‘**’ 0.01; tau is the Mann Kendall’s statistic for trend analysis. A negative symbol (−) denotes a decreasing while a positive symbol denotes an increasing (+) trend

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