marginal significanceP = 0.069
Its negative direct effect on offensive VEI (we use β for SDM coefficients throughout) survives spatial adjustment in every bivariate specification ( Table 1 ) and is the only predictor that retains significance in Model 6 (β = −0.416, P = 0.046), though the total effect drops to marginal significance ( P = 0.069; Table 2 ).