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Table 5 Variable importance estimates for water contact by activity type.

From: Using variable importance measures from causal inference to rank risk factors of schistosomiasis infection in a rural setting in China

Month

Prevalence

VI estimate

95% CI

Std. Error

p-value

Tool washing

0.20

0.88

(0.80, 0.97)

0.05

0.01

Rice planting

0.65

0.71

(0.53, 0.96)

0.15

0.03

Swimming

0.21

0.96

(0.87, 1.06)

0.05

0.38

Ditch digging

0.48

0.94

(0.80, 1.10)

0.08

0.42

Bathing

0.49

1.09

(0.88, 1.35)

0.11

0.42

Laundry

0.22

0.97

(0.89, 1.06)

0.04

0.45

Fishing

0.02

1.00

(0.98, 1.02)

0.01

0.83

  1. The prevalence of water contact for each month in our study population is also shown.