Table 2.
Summary statistics for kitchen area and personal exposure (integrated and real-time) black carbon and PM2.5 concentrations.
| Sample type | n | Black carbon (μg/m3)
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PM2.5 (μg/m3)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (95% CI) | Median | Range | Mean (95% CI) | Median | Range | ||
| Ambient | 9 | 2.0 (1.1, 2.9) | 1.7 | 0.7–4.1 | 20 (12.1, 27.9) | 20.8 | 4.1–33.2 |
| Kitchen area | 29a | 14.5 (12.0, 16.9) | 14.7 | 2.8–29.4 | 446.8 (297.8, 595.7) | 329.4 | 28.3–1761.2 |
| Personal (integrated) | 29 | 8.8 (7.4, 10.3) | 8.7 | 1.9–18.2 | 128.5 (100.0, 156.9) | 121.6 | 16.6–364.6 |
| Personal (real-time) | 29 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 208 (158, 259) | 180 | 30–618 |
a
Due to removal of one sample with poor model fit after application of multi-wavelength reflectance method (Yan et al., 2011), n=x−1 for “Kitchen Area” black carbon concentrations.