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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Geogr. 2009 Jan 1;29(1):111–124. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2008.08.002

Table 1.

Regression Equations for Filtered Areal Weighting and CEDS.

FAW RA RU CEDS
Total Population .936x + 86.8 .968x + 46.4 .983x + 46.4 .983x + 29.0
non-Hispanic White .951x + 22.6 .984x + 8.6 .987x + 7.4 .993x + 4.3
non-Hispanic Black* 1.00x − 1.2 .995x + 2.4 .991x + 3.9 1.00x + 1.3
non-Hispanic Asian .950x + 6.6 .956x + 6.2 .966x + 4.7 .981x + 3.1
Hispanic .942x + 21.7 .974x + 10.1 .981 + 7.6 .989x + 4.8
*

Even though the equations for FAW and CEDS are comparable for the non-Hispanic Black population with regards to parameter coefficients and bias, figures 4–6 demonstrate the improvement of the CEDS method over FAW.