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Table 2 Correlations between the population-weighted distances to parks

From: Modeling spatial accessibility to parks: a national study

Geography

Nearest Park(miles)

Nearest seven parks(miles)

Difference(miles)

Pearson Correlation Coefficients

US

4.3

6.7

2.5

0.93

Large central metro

0.7

1.2

0.4

0.92

large fringe metro

1.9

3.0

1.0

0.94

Medium metro

4.3

6.8

2.5

0.91

Small metro

9.0

14.5

5.4

0.86

Micropolitan

9.3

15.0

5.8

0.86

Noncore

14.6

22.2

7.6

0.93