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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Place. 2015 Sep 12;36:35–46. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.08.009

Table 2.

Posterior Means of the Factor Loadings for the Spatial and Non-Spatial Factor Models. The Posterior Standard Deviations for the Parameters from the Spatial Model Range from 0.01 to 0.09 with an Average Value of 0.06 ((0.04, 0.11) and 0.07 respectively for the Non-Spatial Model).

Spatial Model Non-Spatial Model

Loading 1 Loading 2 Loading 3 Loading 1 Loading 2 Loading 3
Food Stores
 Grocery Stores 0.25 0.00* 0.00* 0.44 0.00* 0.00*
 Supermarket Chains 0.55 0.09 0.69 0.78 −0.20 −0.08
 Supermarket Non-Chains 0.47 0.59 0.13 0.45 −0.43 0.08
 Deli/Meat/Fish/Dairy 0.53 0.37 0.45 0.54 −0.10 0.35
 Liquor Stores 0.61 0.53 0.67 0.77 −0.40 0.36
 Alcohol Establishments 0.67 0.44 0.77 0.89 −0.43 0.19
 Fast Food Chains 0.60 0.33 0.76 0.70 −0.01 0.69
 Fast Food Non-Chains 0.73 0.46 0.66 0.71 0.02 0.69
 Restaurants 0.67 0.53 0.76 0.80 −0.34 0.47
Recreational Facilities 0.78 0.59 0.72 0.82 −0.31 0.46
Land Use
 Residential Land Use (%) −0.14 −0.40 −0.35 −0.25 0.37 −0.46
 Commercial Land Use (%) 0.51 −0.13 0.99 0.80 0.04 0.22
 Population Density (per km2) 0.71 0.60 0.28 0.64 −0.40 −0.01
Crime
 Outdoor Murders 0.18 −0.74 −0.00 −0.01 0.67 −0.57
 Indoor Murders −0.05 −0.93 0.36 0.16 0.49 −0.56
 Outdoor Criminal Offenses 0.73 0.01 0.00* 0.28 0.78 0.00*
 Indoor Criminal Offenses 0.37 −0.68 0.18 0.11 0.85 −0.22
 Outdoor Incivilities −0.20 −1.39 0.76 0.22 0.60 −0.53
 Indoor Incivilities −0.04 −1.21 0.31 0.03 0.81 −0.62
 Outdoor Assault and Battery 0.10 −1.33 0.77 0.31 0.81 −0.48
 Indoor Assault and Battery 0.30 −0.91 0.19 0.09 0.83 −0.51

measured in units per mile2

measured in rates per 1,000 persons

*

constrained to take value 0 for identifiability purposes