3. Results
There were 25,059 dengue cases in Dhaka during the study period. The average monthly number of dengue cases was 168 with an incidence rate of 1.8 per 100,000 populations. The highest monthly incidence rate was 35.2 per 100,000 populations in August 2002. Descriptive statistics for each independent and dependent variable are shown in Table 1. The monthly mean minimum and maximum temperature, rainfall and relative humidity were 21.9 °C, 30.7 °C, 180.2 mm and 72.77%, respectively, between 2000 and 2010 in Dhaka.