We observed that haze related inpatient rates were relatively higher in the month of August for all the four years. That coincides with the higher ……
To examine whether there were non-haze or localized, seasonality factors that contributed to the rise in inpatient admission during august , we regressed the data on inpatient rate against 11 monthly intercept dummy variables for all years including ……
January was used as the control month . Results indicate that the coefficient for the August dummy for the samples years… was significantly higher relative to that of other years. This signifies inpatient rates were higher in August for the sampled years. However, the coefficient for the August
From the findings, we can concluded that there has been no evidence of non-haze or seasonal factors affecting the rise in haze related admission rate during the smoke haze episodes