Urban sprawl, obesity, and cancer mortality in the United States: cross-sectional analysis and methodological challenges

Table 2 Moran’s I test for spatial autocorrelation for alternative models

Covariates included in models	All cancers				Obesity related cancers
	Male		Female		Male		Female
	I	p	I	p	I	p	I	p
1. ln sprawl	0.099	≤0.0001	0.049	≤0.0001	0.067	≤0.0001	0.039	≤0.0001
2. ln sprawl + other covariates	−0.005	0.999	0.004	0.005	−0.006	0.999	−0.0001	0.154
3. ln sprawl + other covariates + census divisions	−0.003	0.992	0.001	0.051	−0.001	0.487	−0.0006	0.231
4. ln sprawl + other covariates + census divisions
+ selected interactions	−0.003	0.986	0.002	0.022	−0.002	0.669	0.002	0.03
5. ln sprawl + other covariates + census divisions
+ selected interactions + county centroids	−0.002	0.91	−0.002	0.588	−0.002	0.687	−0.001	0.436
6. ln sprawl + other covariates + census divisions
+ selected interactions + county centroids
+ ln sprawl * census division interaction	−0.002	0.827	−0.002	0.792	−0.002	0.687	−0.002	0.767

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