Letter/Communication
Authors Reply to Letter about: Clustering of Fast-Food Restaurants Around Schools: A Novel Application of Spatial Statistics to the Study of Food Environments
American journal of public health (1971), v 96(2), pp 205-206
01 Feb 2006
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Abstract
We thank Spielman for commenting on our article and giving us an opportunity to continue the dialogue on methodological issues in studying food environments. In response to his point about network versus straight-line distances, we would like to note that in a related study, our research team found network and straight-line distances in Chicago to be highly correlated, and results did not differ when models were tested with network versus straight-line distances. Chicago streets follow a fairly dense grid, which may explain why a difference was not found between the 2 methods. [1st paragraph]
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- Title
- Authors Reply to Letter about: Clustering of Fast-Food Restaurants Around Schools: A Novel Application of Spatial Statistics to the Study of Food Environments
- Creators
- S. Bryn Austin - Boston Children's HospitalSteven J. Melly - Harvard UniversityBrisa N. Sanchez - Harvard UniversityAarti Patel - Boston Children's HospitalStephen Buka - Harvard UniversitySteven L. Gortmaker - Harvard University
- Publication Details
- American journal of public health (1971), v 96(2), pp 205-206
- Publisher
- American Journal of Public Health 2006
- Number of pages
- 2
- Resource Type
- Letter/Communication
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000234991400003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-31544466209
- Other Identifier
- 991022033972204721
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