1\begin{table}[htbp]\centering\footnotesize2\caption{H2 --- Regional assortment diversity and regional scale}\label{tab:h2}3\begin{adjustbox}{max width=\textwidth}4\begin{tabular}{lrrrr}\toprule5Outcome $\sim$ covariate & $n$ & Spearman $\rho$ & 95\% CI & OLS slope (HC3 SE) \\\midrule6H\_rarefied15 ~ log\_population & 16 & -0.10 & [-0.68; 0.59] & -0.005 (0.006) \\7H\_rarefied15 ~ log\_business\_locations & 16 & -0.15 & [-0.68; 0.58] & -0.005 (0.007) \\8H\_rarefied15 ~ disposable\_income & 16 & 0.44 & [-0.47; 0.77] & 0.000 (0.000) \\9H\_rarefied15 ~ log\_density & 16 & -0.27 & [-0.71; 0.52] & -0.002 (0.002) \\10H\_norm\_M ~ log\_population & 17 & 0.40 & [-0.14; 0.79] & 0.030 (0.021) \\11H\_norm\_M ~ log\_business\_locations & 17 & 0.42 & [-0.13; 0.81] & 0.032 (0.022) \\12H\_norm\_M ~ disposable\_income & 17 & 0.54 & [-0.00; 0.86] & 0.000 (0.000) \\13H\_norm\_M ~ log\_density & 17 & 0.17 & [-0.42; 0.68] & 0.009 (0.009) \\14eff\_cat\_M ~ log\_population & 17 & 0.40 & [-0.17; 0.80] & 0.893 (0.608) \\15eff\_cat\_M ~ log\_business\_locations & 17 & 0.42 & [-0.13; 0.81] & 0.963 (0.624) \\16eff\_cat\_M ~ disposable\_income & 17 & 0.54 & [-0.01; 0.86] & 0.001 (0.000) \\17eff\_cat\_M ~ log\_density & 17 & 0.17 & [-0.42; 0.66] & 0.265 (0.270) \\18log\_stores\_per\_100k ~ log\_population & 17 & -0.19 & [-0.61; 0.31] & -- \\19log\_stores\_per\_100k ~ log\_density & 17 & -0.22 & [-0.71; 0.35] & -- \\20log\_stores\_per\_100k ~ disposable\_income & 17 & -0.02 & [-0.51; 0.47] & -- \\21\bottomrule\end{tabular}22\end{adjustbox}23\begin{minipage}{0.95\textwidth}\vspace{2pt}\footnotesize\textit{Notes:} 17 regions; rarefied diversity needs >= 15 stores (Nord-du-Québec, 3 stores, excluded). Associations only; CIs from 5 000 region-level bootstrap draws combined with the 2 000 rarefaction draws of the outcome; OLS slope with HC3 SE. Power: with n = 16 the smallest |rho| detectable with 80 \% power at alpha = 0.05 is about 0.66.\end{minipage}24\end{table}25