Figure 3From: Development of a new version of the Liverpool Malaria Model. II. Calibration and validation for West AfricaObserved and simulated annual entomological inoculation rates. Validation of LMM2010 simulations in terms of the annual entomological inoculation rate (EIR a ) in the area of the 34 synoptic stations in West Africa used in this study. The simulated 34 annual EIR a values between 1973 and 2006 are illustrated as grey box-and-whisker plots (the numeric values of maxima beyond the scale of the ordinate are plotted on the upper abscissa). Field observations of EIR a (green lines and box plots) are either displayed as a vertical line (two available measurements), a vertical line with the median (three or four values), or as a box-and-whisker plot (≥ five data points). Each observation is furthermore inserted as a red circle and the number of observations is given above the entered observations (red digits). The skill score in terms of EIRa (SC(EIR a )), a measure of the performance of the simulations with regard to observed data, is denoted for every station as a blue digit. Stations are grouped as in Figure 2.Back to article page