Arterial roads and area socioeconomic status are predictors of fast food restaurant density in King County, WA

Table 2 Regression models for fast food density (raw and z-score standardized data), King County, Washington State, USA census tracts

	Area-based density (fast food restaurants/tract km ² )				Population-based density (fast food restaurants per tract capita)
Raw data
Model 1	Coeff	Std. error	z value	Pr(>\|z\|)	Coeff	Std. error	z value	Pr(>\|z\|)
Intercept	3.097	0.444	6.971	<0.001	-5.537	0.389	-14.243	<0.001
Median hh income ($1000)	-0.066	0.006	-10.451	<0.001	-0.040	0.005	-7.349	<0.001
% Nonwhite	-0.012	0.006	-1.986	0.047	-0.011	0.006	-1.968	0.049
Model 2
Intercept	1.084	0.469	2.310	0.021	-6.366	0.444	-14.332	<0.001
Median hh income ($1000)	-0.045	0.006	-7.145	<0.001	-0.032	0.006	-5.376	<0.001
% Nonwhite	-0.006	0.006	-0.97	0.332	-0.011	0.005	-1.944	0.052
Arterial density (km/km²)	0.168	0.023	7.155	<0.001	0.086	0.023	3.767	<0.001
Standardized data
Model 1
Intercept	-0.959	0.089	-10.774	<0.001	-8.100	0.081	-99.963	<0.001
Median hh income ($1000)	-1.292	0.124	-10.451	<0.001	-0.791	0.108	-7.349	<0.001
% nonwhite	-0.198	0.100	-1.986	0.047	-0.176	0.089	-1.968	0.049
Model 2
Intercept	-1.029	0.083	-12.416	<0.001	-8.118	0.079	-102.344	<0.001
Median hh income ($1000)	-0.879	0.123	-7.145	<0.001	-0.617	0.115	-5.376	<0.001
% nonwhite	-0.089	0.092	-0.970	0.332	-0.171	0.088	-1.944	0.052
Arterial density	0.569	0.080	7.155	<0.001	0.292	0.077	3.767	<0.001

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