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. 2013 Mar 14;12:12. doi: 10.1186/1476-072X-12-12

Table 1.

Correlation between county level HB estimates of PM2.5and AQS-based PM2.5concentrations

Geo-imputation approach
Grid resolution
Correlation coefficient
    Pearson(r) Kendall Tau-B(τ)
Population-weighted county centroid containment
36-km
0.94
0.83
12-km
0.86
0.69
Grid cell centroid containment
36-km
0.92
0.78
12-km
0.84
0.67
Geometric intersection
36-km
0.91
0.76
  12-km 0.84 0.66