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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2012 Jan 18;22(2):135–147. doi: 10.1038/jes.2011.45

Table 6.

Percent change in pollutant level per increase of one interquartile range in the indicated predictor stratified by whether the communities are in or out of the Los Angeles basin.

Predictor variable NO2
NO
NOX
In basin Out of basin In basin Out of basin In basin Out of basin

% Change % Change % Change % Change % Change % Change
CALINE-modeled TRP (freeway) 8.6**** 16.3**** 19.8**** 31.1**** 14.1**** 20.9****
CALINE-modeled TRP (non-freeway) 3.9**** 11.8**** 14.1**** 25.4**** 10.4**** 15.6****
Distance to nearest freeway −0.6 1.2 −1.1 −0.1 −1.6 −1.9
Squared distance to nearest freeway −0.3 0.4 0.9 0.3 0.5 −0.1
Distance to nearest non-freeway major road −0.7 −2.7*** −2.6** −2.4** −1.1* −2.9****
Non-freeway traffic volume within a 300m buffer 1.5**** −0.5 1.2 −6.3** 1.0* −2.0
Population within a 300m buffer 1.2**** 1.3 3.2**** −1.0 2.3 1.2
Neighborhood elevation relative to the community −2.5**** −9.5**** −4.3**** −8.2**** −1.8*** −10.5****
LRT fixed versus spatial model 229.9**** 38.2 248.8 32.7**** 350.8**** 35.5****
10-fold cross-validation R2 69% 72% 60% 72% 70% 76%

In-basin includes 658 sampling locations in eight communities within the Los Angeles basin. Out of basin includes 284 sampling locations in four communities outside the LA basin (see Table 1 for the specific communities). See Table 4 for the IQRs of the predicted variables.

*

P<0.1;

**

P<0.05;

***

P<0.005;

****

P<0.0005.