Tables 2 and 3 also contain alternate specifications of language mix, although these specifications include the preferred language mix variables: percent LEP and the LEP Herfindahl index.
Use of alternate specifications of EDB (i.e. logarithmic form or energy from beverages) yielded similar results.
All our main conclusions were robust to these alternate specifications.
We tried alternate specifications replacing 'payments received in accounts' in place of 'wages in accounts' but the results were similar.
Therefore, alternate neighborhood specifications for sensitivity analyses included estimated tree canopy exposures based on addresses reported at age 5 or 7 years instead of the prenatal address as well as an alternate geographic scale (using larger 1.0-km buffers).
In a first and a second alternate specification, we additionally controlled for comorbidity (model I) and depression (model II), respectively.
15 Linear state trends will deal with differential trends in each state's native population over time, yet I also explicitly control for the total state population in an alternate specification.
Generally, eNO pollutant associations for the PM measures were robust to alternate temporal averaging times [i.e., 24, 48, 72, and 96 hr; see Supplemental Material, Figure 1 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1003169)] and to alternative specifications of meteorologic control (data not shown).
Snijders et al. [ 15] later propose three new configurations (i.e. alternating k-stars, alternating k-triangles and alternating independent two-paths) that can be included in specifications for ERG models.
In many cases, the presentation of risk estimates in a comprehensive table (for example, see Bell and Dominici 2008, their Table 5) that account for alternate model specifications and effect modifiers will provide the details necessary to inform a risk assessment.
This alternative specification is my preferred specification for two reasons.
