Eave and swarm collections prove effective for biased captures of male Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes in Uganda

Parasites & Vectors

Table 6 Post-hoc pairwise comparisons (generalized linear model contrasts) of the number of A. gambiae female and male mosquitoes collected per unit of collection (room, eaves, bush, bucket, pot, swarm) using different methods

Comparison	Value	Log-likelihood	Chi-square	P-value
Females
BUSH–ASP	3.94	200.41	137.62	< 0.0001*
CPT–ASP	4.76	187.49	111.78	< 0.0001*
CPT–BUSH	0.82	131.81	0.43	< 0.0001*
EAV–ASP	0.67	138.44	13.68	= 0.0002*
EAV–BUSH	3.28	163.47	63.75	< 0.0001*
EAV–CPT	− 4.09	158.87	54.54	< 0.0001*
RBT–ASP	4.42	186.34	109.49	< 0.0001*
RBT–BUSH	0.48	131.69	0.18	= 0.6721
RBT–CPT	− 0.34	131.62	0.05	= 0.8246
RBT–EAV	3.76	157.91	52.63	< 0.0001*
SWN–ASP	5.09	192.27	121.34	= 0.4325
SWN–BUSH	1.15	131.98	0.77	= 0.3805
SWN–CPT	0.33	131.62	0.04	= 0.8501
SWN–EAV	4.42	161.62	60.06	< 0.0001*
Males
BUSH–ASP	1.54	–^a	3.32	= 0.0685
CPT–ASP	2.48	–	2.13	= 0.1448
CPT–BUSH	0.93	–	0.26	= 0.6092
EAV–ASP	− 1.71	–	17.57	< 0.0001*
EAV–BUSH	− 3.25	–	17.18	< 0.0001*
EAV–CPT	− 4.18	–	6.29	= 0.0122
RBT–ASP	2.39	–	2.01	= 0.1563
RBT–BUSH	0.85	166.04	0.29	= 0.5937
RBT–CPT	− 0.08	165.90	0.001	= 0.9715
RBT–EAV	4.10	–	6.12	= 0.0134
SWN–ASP	− 2.53	–	44.21	< 0.0001*
SWN–BUSH	− 4.07	–	27.92	< 0.0001*
SWN–CPT	− 5.00	–	9.06	= 0.0026*
SWN–EAV	− 0.89	–	16.24	= 0.0001*
SWN–RBT	− 4.92	–	8.88	= 0.0029*

*Significant difference between methods
^aDash (–) in cells indicates missing values of − log likelihood, indicating that a suboptimization step failed to converge. In these cases, a Wald test statistic was used and a P-value provided rather than a likelihood ratio test

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