Malaria patients in Nigeria: Data exploration approach.

ABSTRACT: Malaria is a life threatening disease which is usually transmitted to people through the bite of infected female anopheles mosquitoes. However, this article deals with the data exploration of malaria symptoms reported by 337 patients attended to at Federal Polytechnic Ilaro Medical centre, Ogun State Nigeria. The study covers a period of four (4) weeks monitoring of patients attendance, their consultation with physician and malaria test results as compared to their claims of malaria infection. Logistic regression was used for the basic analysis of the dataset and it was discovered that people in the age range 38-47 years are mostly affected with malaria and that females are the most infected gender species with headache being the most significant symptom based on its Wald statistic value.

SUBMITTER: Adeboye NO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7093799 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature