Imputing unmeasured explanatory variables in environmental epidemiology with application to health impact analysis of air pollution

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 99-105

  Zidek, J V ^a   White, R ^a   Le, N D ^b   Sun, W ^a,c   Burnett, R T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^c STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

^d HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Clustered data; Environmental epidemiology; Generalized estimating equations; Longitudinal data; Nonlinear mixed effect models; Ozone; Respiratory morbidity; Spatial prediction; Structural measurement error; Sulphate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002045749     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009610720709     Document Type: Article

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