Implications of different approaches for characterizing ambient air pollutant concentrations within the urban airshed for time-series studies and health benefits analyses

Table 2 Pairwise Spearman correlation coefficients for three-day moving average ambient air pollutant concentrations.

	Correlation between central monitor and unweighted average	Correlation between central monitor and population-weighted average	Correlation between population-weighted average and unweighted average
8-h ozone	0.988	0.979	0.988
24-h PM₁₀	0.956	0.961	0.990
24-h PM_2.5	0.969	0.963	0.995
24-h PM_2.5 sulfate	0.938	0.957	0.989
24-h PM_2.5 organic carbon	0.847	0.891	0.975
24-h PM_2.5 elemental carbon	0.831	0.804	0.966
1-h nitrogen dioxide	0.831	0.868	0.919
1-h carbon monoxide	0.960	0.946	0.980
1-h sulfur dioxide	0.849	0.917	0.954

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