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Table 4 Multiple regression coefficients of selected water quality parameters during various seasons where households’ diarrheal encounters was the dependent variable

From: Water use practices, water quality, and households’ diarrheal encounters in communities along the Boro-Thamalakane-Boteti river system, Northern Botswana

	Seasons
Independent variables	LFR			EF			PF			EFR
	(β)	t	p	(β)	t	p	(β)	t	p	(β)	t	p
	R ² = 0.559			R ² = 0.953			R ² = 0.930			R ² = 0.857
Escherichia coli	−0.118	−0.241	0.832	0.451	4.865	0.0394**	−0.042	−1.089	0.390	−0.164	−2.558	0.1249
Fecal streptococci	−0.033	−0.154	0.982	−0.960	−4.825	0.040^a	−0.0343	−0.446	0.699	−0.0352	−0.387	0.736
Turbidity	−0.0737	−0.167	0.883	−0.343	−0.803	0.506	2.037	4.536	0.0453^a	1.144	1.338	0.313

Seasons—LFR late flooding recession, EF early flooding, PF peak flooding, EFR early flood recession, β regression coefficient
^**Significant

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