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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 13.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2016 Aug 25;151:505–512. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.08.019

Table 1.

The mean and the 95% probability interval (PI) of the median, mean, 25th and 75th percentile serum concentrations at birth (ng/mL), for the study participants, for each of the 2 Monte Carlo simulations (200 iterations per simulation)

Simulation Median (95% PI) Mean (95% PI) 25th percentile (95% PI) 75th percentile (95% PI)
Modified original (n=10,149) 9.4 51.1 5.1 32.5
Modified original
Residential centroid subset (n= 3,266)
8.3 50.3 5.0 27.1
Street-level subset (n=6883) 10.2 52.8 5.1 35.5
MC simulation I
Residential centroid subset (n= 3,266)
7.4 (7.3, 7.5) 49.9 (48.7, 51.0) 5.1 (5.1, 5.2) 24.1 (23.1, 25.2)
MC simulation I (n= 10,149) 9.1 (9.0, 9.1) 51.9 (51.5, 52.2) 5.1 (5.1, 5.1) 32.3 (31.8, 32.7)
MC simulation II
Residential centroid subset (n= 3,266)
8.2 (8.0, 8.4) 53.1 (51.9, 54.3) 5.2 (5.2, 5.2) 31.2 (29.9, 32.6)
MC simulation II (n= 10,149) 10.9 (10.8, 11.0) 55.5 (55.1,55.9) 5.2 (5.2, 5.2) 40.1 (39.3, 40.8)