New problems for an old design: Time series analyses of air pollution and health

Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-12

  Samet, Jonathan M ^a   Dominici, Francesca ^a   McDermott, Aidan ^a   Zeger, Scott L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NOTE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VARIANCE; WEATHER; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTION; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; MORTALITY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037209134     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-200301000-00006     Document Type: Note

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