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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 29.
Published in final edited form as: Health Place. 2008 Oct 19;15(2):631–635. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.09.008

Table 1.

Correlation between poverty and childhood overweight by race/ethnicity and gender and univaraite Moran’s I statistic for childhood overweight.

Correlation coefficient Univariate Moran’s I valuea
Child overweight (entire population) 0.82*** 0.31
Child overweight (African-American) 0.43*** 0.23
Child overweight (Latino) 0.61*** 0.28
Child overweight (White) 0.54*** 0.24
Child overweight (girls) 0.84*** 0.26
Child overweight (boys) 0.76*** 0.38
***

p value <0.001.

a

Higher Moran’s I statistic values represent greater autocorrelation.