Assessment of a Bayesian multivariate interpolation approach for health impact studies

Environmetrics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 565-586

  Sun, Weimin ^a   Le, Nhu D ^b,c   Zidek, James V ^c   Burnett, Rick ^d  

^a STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Bayesian spatial interpolation; EM algorithm; Nitrate; Ozone; Sulphate; Sulphur dioxide

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; HEALTH IMPACT; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CANADA;

EID: 0031705451     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199809/10)9:5<565::AID-ENV324>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (21)

1. Brown, P. J., Le, N. D. and Zidek, J. V. (1994). 'Multivariate spatial interpolation and exposure to air pollutants'. Can J of Statist, 22, 489-509.
2. Burnett, R. T., Dales, R. E., Raizenne, M. R., Krewski, D., Summers, P. W., Roberts, G. R., Raad-Young, M., Dann, T. and Brook, J. (1994). 'Effects of low ambient levels of ozone and sulfates on the frequency of respiratory admissions to Ontario hospitals'. Environmental Research, 65, 172-194.
3. Carroll, R. J., Ruppert, D. and Stefanski, L. A. (1996). Measurement Error in Nonlinear Models. London: Chapman and Hall.
4. Cressie, N. (1991). Statistics for Spatial Data. New York: Wiley.
5. Duddek, C., Le, N. D., Zidek, J. V. and Burnett, R. T. (1995). 'Multivariate imputation in cross-sectional analysis of health effects associated with air pollution' (with discussions). Journal of Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 2, 191-212.
6. Haas, T. C. (1990a). 'Lognormal and moving window methods of estimating acid deposition'. JASA, 85, 950-963.
7. Haas, T. C. (1990b). 'Kriging and automated variogram modeling within a moving window'. Atmosph Environ, 24A, 1759-1769.
8. Haas, T. C. (1992). 'Redesigning continental-scale monitoring networks'. Atmosph Environ, 26A, 3323-3333.
9. Haas, T. C. (1993). 'Co-Kriging variables that are first and second order nonstationary'. Presented at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada.
10. Le, N. D. and Zidek, J. V. (1992). 'Interpolation with uncertain spatial covariance: a Bayesian alternative to kriging'. J Mult Anal, 43, 351-374.
11. Le, N. D., Sun, W. and Zidek, J. V. (1997). 'Bayesian multivariate spatial interpolation with data missingby-design'. Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 59, 501-510.
12. Little, R. J. A. and Rubin, D. (1987). Statistical Analysis with Missing Data. New York: John Wiley and Sons
13. Loader and Switzer, P. (1992). 'Spatial covariance estimation for monitoring data'. In Statistics in the Environmental and Earth Sciences, eds. A. T. Walden and P. Guttorp, London: Edward Arnold, pp. 52-70.
14. Mardia, K. V., Kent, J. T. and Bibby, J. M. (1979). Multivariate Analysis. New York: Academic Press.
15. Press, S. J. (1982). Applied Multivariate Analysis - using Bayesian and Frequentist Methods of Inference. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
16. Sampson, P. and Guttorp, P. (1992). 'Nonparametric estimation of nonstationary spatial covariance structure'. J Amer Statist Assoc, 87, 108-119.
17. Stone, M. (1974). 'Cross-validatory choice and assessment of statistical predictions (with discussion)'. Journal Roy Statist Soc, Series B, 34, 111-147.
18. Sun, W. (1994). 'Bayesian multivariate interpolation with missing data and its applications'. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
19. Williamson, S. J. (1973). Fundamentals of Air Pollution. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
20. Zidek, J. V. (1996). 'Interpolating air pollution for health impact assessment'. Proceedings of SPRUCE III. Submitted.
21. Zidek, J. V., White, R., Le, N. D., Sun, W. and Burnett, R. T. (1998). 'Inputing unmeasured explanatory variables in environmental epidemiology with application to health impact analysis of air pollution'. Journal of Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 5(2). (To appear).