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Published in final edited form as: Atmos Environ (1994). 2014 Feb;84:65–77. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.11.031

Table 3.

Combined-Cities Model with Profile Constraints: Pairwise Correlations between Predicted and Observed species by Feature, City and Season

Feature Pairwise Correlationsa (Summer / Winter)
Cu Zn P Si
Chicago Brake Wear 0.71 (0.68 / 0.76) 0.15 (0.09 / 0.22) 0.23 (0.20 / 0.24) 0.23 (0.17 / 0.45)
Tire Wear 0.67 (0.70 / 0.67) 0.94 (0.93 / 0.97) 0.51 (0.44 / 0.61) 0.53 (0.59 / 0.78)
Soil 0.63 (0.60 / 0.75) 0.62 (0.61 / 0.80) 0.29 (0.56 / 0.51) 0.97 (0.98 / 0.97)
Fertilized Soil −0.48 (−0.58 / −0.35) −0.52 (−0.78 / −0.24) 0.31 (−0.01 / 0.43) −0.31 (−0.3 / −0.12)
Pb-Rich 0.57 (0.63 / 0.52) 0.89 (0.93 / 0.84) 0.59 (0.55 / 0.66) 0.50 (0.58 / 0.68)
St. Paul Brake Wear 0.33 (0.90 / 0.39) 0.43 (0.55 / −0.08) 0.54 (0.26 / −0.21) 0.70 (0.44 / −0.04)
Tire Wear 0.57 (0.75 / 0.41) 1.00 (1.00 / 0.99) 0.43 (0.54 / 0.50) 0.41 (0.64 / 0.57)
Soil −0.10 (0.71 / −0.30) 0.37 (0.70 / −0.24) 0.79 (0.60 / −0.56) 0.98 (0.97 / −0.14)
Fertilized Soil −0.21 (0.15 / −0.10) 0.29 (0.24 / 0.52) 0.90 (0.78 / 0.87) 0.76 (0.50 / 0.28)
Road Salt 0.49 (0.65 / 0.88) −0.04 (0.85 / 0.43) 0.65 (0.39 / 0.25) 0.78 (0.54 / 0.82)
Winston-
Salem
Brake Wear 0.95 (0.98 / 0.92) 0.31 (0.02 / 0.55) 0.21 (0.17 / 0.57) 0.44 (0.58 / 0.37)
Tire Wear 0.39 (0.13 / 0.62) 1.00 (1.00 / 1.00) 0.03 (0.38 / 0.35) 0.40 (0.28 / 0.43)
Soil 0.30 (0.47 / 0.25) 0.30 (0.21 / 0.27) −0.28 (0.25 / 0.42) 0.94 (0.95 / 0.96)
Fertilized Soil 0.07 (−0.05 / 0.37) −0.01 (0.26 / 0.31) 0.94 (0.84 / 0.78) −0.21 (0.07 / 0.14)
a

Pearson correlation coefficient between measured species concentration and predicted source contribution from baseline model; values with p <0.05 are shown in bold