Walkability and the built environment: validation of the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS) for urban areas in Mexico

2017/02/09 by Oscar A. Martínez-Martínez, Oscar A. Martínez‐Martínez, Araceli Ramírez-López +1 · 17 citations
Engineering · Health Professions · Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Built environment #Cartography #Correlation #Cronbach's alpha #Econometrics #Geography #Likert scale #Mathematics #Noise Effects and Management #Ordinal Scale #Ordinal data #Ordinal regression #Polychoric correlation #Psychometrics #Reliability (semiconductor) #Sample (material) #Scale (ratio) #Statistics #Traffic and Road Safety #Urban Transport and Accessibility #Walkability

paper · doi:10.1007/s11135-017-0483-x

published in Quality & Quantity 52(2), 703-718 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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