Table 2.
Correlations among pollutants indoors and outdoors, stratified by season.
Analyte | Location | Heating season | Nonheating season | ||||
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N | Abs | PM2.5 | N | Abs | PM2.5 | ||
Σ8PAHnonvolatile | Indoor | 201 | 0.472** | 0.381** | 97 | 0.366** | 0.242* |
Outdoor | 67 | 0.298* | 0.265* | 31 | 0.065 | −0.349 | |
Σ8PAHsemivolatile | Indoor | 201 | 0.106 | 0.119 | 97 | 0.002 | 0.018 |
Outdoor | 67 | 0.372** | 0.290* | 31 | 0.331 | 0.579** | |
Pye | Indoor | 201 | 0.190** | 0.207** | 97 | 0.239* | 0.011 |
Outdoor | 67 | 0.443** | 0.317* | 31 | 0.452* | 0.201 | |
PM2.5 | Indoor | 208 | 0.570** | 1 | 100 | 0.358** | 1 |
Outdoor | 70 | 0.876** | 1 | 32 | 0.501** | 1 |
Pearson correlation coefficient performed on log-transformed data;
p-value < 0.05;
p-value< 0.001