The spatial association between community air pollution and mortality: A new method of analyzing correlated geographic cohort data

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2001, Pages 375-380

  Burnett, R T ^a   Ma, R ^a   Jerrett, M ^a   Goldberg, M S ^a   Cakmak, S ^a   Arden Pope III, C ^a   Krewski, D ^a  

^a Environmental Health Centre Ottawa   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cohort; Epidemiology; Mortality; Spatial regression; Sulfate particles; Survival

Indexed keywords

SULFATE;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034960647     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.01109s3375     Document Type: Article

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