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Table 2 Description of the developed land use regression models for NO2

From: Association between pregnancy exposure to air pollution and birth weight in selected areas of Norway

Study area

LUR modela

R2 of model

Adjusted R2 of model

RMSE (cross-validation) (μg m−3)

Number of sites

Moran’s I (p-value)

Measured concentration (μg/m3)b

Oslo

24.59 – 8.40E-06*NATURAL1000 + 9684.22*DISTINVMAJOR2

67 %

61 %

5.3

14

−0.09 (0.45)

19.1 [2.8 – 30.0]

Akershus

15.79 + 0.000042*WATER500 - 0.01*DISTMAJOR - 3.79E-06*AGRO1000

59 %

55 %

4.5

36

0.01 (0.41)

13.7 [5.3 – 30.3]

Bergen and Hordaland

7.38 + 0.01*MAJORLENGTH50_100 + 859649.5*DISTINVPORT2 + 4.20E-06*HLDRES1000 + 0.05*MAJORLENGTH50 + 0.0003*MAJORLENGTH100_1000 - 0.05*ALT – 0.00003*AGRO1000 + 0.002*DISTSEA

87 %

85 %

4.3

46

−0.12 (0.11)

18.7 [6.8 – 51.0]

  1. aSee Additional file 1: Table S1 for definitions of the variable names. bMean [min - max]. LUR land use regression