A GEE moving average analysis of the relationship between air pollution and mortality for asthma in Barcelona, Spain

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2077-2086

  Saez, Marc ^a   Tobias, Aurelio ^b   Muñoz, Pilar ^c   Campbell, M J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d Campus de Montilivi ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COVARIANCE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPAIN; WEATHER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEASONS; SPAIN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0033618859     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990830)18:16<2077::AID-SIM185>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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