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. 2015 Mar 3;12(3):e1001792. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001792

Table 4. Correlation coefficients (Spearman) between air pollutants by season.

EC (out) NO2 (out) UFP (out) EC (in) NO2 (in) UPF (in)
EC (out) 0.58*** 0.73*** 0.62*** 0.82*** 0.53** 0.49**
NO 2 (out) 0.63*** 0.49** 0.51** 0.61*** 0.71*** 0.34
UPF (out) 0.61*** 0.61*** 0.72*** 0.49** 0.30 0.57***
EC (in) 0.86*** 0.69*** 0.63*** 0.73*** 0.66*** 0.61***
NO 2 (in) 0.45** 0.70*** 0.43* 0.58*** 0.64*** 0.39*
UFP (in) 0.41* 0.42* 0.65*** 0.62*** 0.38* 0.40*

Below diagonal, cold season (November–March); above diagonal, warm season (April–October). Correlations between the two seasons in the diagonal.

*p < 0.05

**p < 0.01

***p < 0.001.

out, outdoors (courtyard); in, indoors (classroom).