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 & 0.04 & [-0.65; 0.62] & -0.003 (0.017) \\7H\_rarefied15 ~ log\_business\_locations & 16 & 0.04 & [-0.67; 0.63] & -0.005 (0.018) \\8H\_rarefied15 ~ disposable\_income & 16 & 0.00 & [-0.61; 0.59] & 0.000 (0.000) \\9H\_rarefied15 ~ log\_density & 16 & -0.15 & [-0.74; 0.55] & -0.004 (0.006) \\10H\_norm\_M ~ log\_population & 17 & 0.52 & [-0.05; 0.92] & 0.038 (0.023) \\11H\_norm\_M ~ log\_business\_locations & 17 & 0.53 & [-0.06; 0.94] & 0.039 (0.023) \\12H\_norm\_M ~ disposable\_income & 17 & 0.53 & [-0.02; 0.87] & 0.000 (0.000) \\13H\_norm\_M ~ log\_density & 17 & 0.26 & [-0.37; 0.78] & 0.010 (0.011) \\14eff\_cat\_M ~ log\_population & 17 & 0.52 & [-0.07; 0.91] & 1.177 (0.708) \\15eff\_cat\_M ~ log\_business\_locations & 17 & 0.53 & [-0.04; 0.93] & 1.201 (0.706) \\16eff\_cat\_M ~ disposable\_income & 17 & 0.53 & [-0.01; 0.86] & 0.000 (0.000) \\17eff\_cat\_M ~ log\_density & 17 & 0.26 & [-0.37; 0.77] & 0.284 (0.362) \\18log\_stores\_per\_100k ~ log\_population & 17 & -0.19 & [-0.61; 0.31] & -- \\19log\_stores\_per\_100k ~ log\_density & 17 & -0.22 & [-0.72; 0.35] & -- \\20log\_stores\_per\_100k ~ disposable\_income & 17 & -0.02 & [-0.49; 0.46] & -- \\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