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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2019 Mar;30(2):166–176. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000940

Table 2.

Spearman correlation coefficients for activity path-based, activity location-based and residence-based measures of exposure to all alcohol outlets

Residential Location Measures Activity Location Measures Activity Path-Based Measures
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Residential Location Measures
1 Circular buffer (800m) 1.00
2 Census block group (count) 0.34 1.00
3 Census tract (count) 0.40 0.52 1.00
4 Census block group (count per square km) 0.48 0.92 0.46 1.00 0.9–1.0
5 Census tract (count per square km) 0.62 0.45 0.71 0.57 1.00 0.8–0.9
6 Inverse distance weighted sum of 7 nearest outlets (Euclidean km) 0.86 0.32 0.34 0.48 0.61 1.00 0.7–0.8
Activity Location Measures 0.6–0.7
7 Circular buffer (800m) 0.21 0.17 0.23 0.10 0.10 0.15 1.00 0.5–0.6
8 Convex hull 0.06 −0.04 0.02 −0.09 −0.05 0.00 0.60 1.00 0.4–0.5
9 Standard deviation ellipse 0.11 −0.03 0.08 −0.07 0.00 0.05 0.57 0.93 1.00 0.3–0.4
10 Standard deviation ellipse (time-weighted) 0.29 0.14 0.24 0.12 0.19 0.29 0.44 0.66 0.67 1.00 0.2–0.3
11 Roadway network distance (100m buffer) −0.01 −0.10 −0.07 −0.12 −0.01 0.02 0.31 0.39 0.35 0.30 1.00 0.1–0.2
Activity Path-Based Measures 0–0.1
12 Buffer around activity path line (100m buffer) −0.01 0.06 −0.02 0.04 0.05 0.04 0.18 0.20 0.16 0.20 0.57 1.00 < 0.0
13 Outlets per hour (100m buffer) 0.21 0.18 0.24 0.16 0.21 0.32 0.45 0.27 0.28 0.41 0.50 0.59 1.00
14 Per hour – excluding home (100m buffer) 0.28 0.19 0.26 0.20 0.25 0.35 0.45 0.23 0.27 0.31 0.38 0.43 0.84 1.00
15 % Time exposed to any outlet (100m buffer) 0.24 0.19 0.21 0.19 0.23 0.34 0.38 0.30 0.33 0.46 0.49 0.56 0.91 0.77 1.00
16 Per hour – two-week data (100m buffer) 0.19 0.12 0.25 0.11 0.19 0.30 0.45 0.26 0.28 0.38 0.46 0.47 0.91 0.78 0.83 1.00
17 Per hour – one-week data (100m buffer) 0.25 0.12 0.32 0.12 0.29 0.36 0.43 0.20 0.22 0.34 0.41 0.41 0.81 0.69 0.74 0.86 1.00
18 Per hour – one-day data (100m buffer) 0.28 0.12 0.23 0.14 0.26 0.33 0.20 0.13 0.16 0.28 0.29 0.32 0.57 0.53 0.57 0.53 0.59 1.00