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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2017 Sep 18;159:491–499. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.08.034

Table 1.

Overall Descriptive Statistics for Sound Levels in Boston, Massachusetts (Mean (SD), Median (IQR), 10th and 90th values and Spearman Correlations for Low Frequency (25 – 125 Hz), Mid Frequency (250 – 1,000 Hz), High Frequency (2,000 – 16,000 Hz), and A-weighted Sound (n = 400 monitoring sites)

Sound Level Mean (SD) P50 (IQR) P10 P90
Low Frequency (dB) 70.7 (6.8) 70.5 (10.1) 61.6 79.3
Mid Frequency (dB) 62.4 (7.6) 62.5 (11.7) 53.1 71.6
High Frequency (dB) 53.0 (8.6) 52.8 (13.7) 42.1 63.1
A-weighted (dB(A)) 60.7 (7.9) 60.5 (12.6) 51.1 70.2