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Table 2 Parameters’ estimate of the fitted GAM

From: The effects of weather on the spread of COVID-19: evidence from Ghana

Variable	Estimates	P-value
Parametric coefficients
Intercept	− 45.81	< 0.001
Wind speed	0.010	0.010
Pressure	0.458	< 0.001

Variable	EDF^a	P-value
Smooth terms
f (average temperature)	6.984	< 0.001
f (humidity)	5.963	< 0.001

^aEDF represents effective degree of freedom

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