Assessment of short-term association between health outcomes and ozone concentrations using a Markov regression model

Environmetrics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 271-282

  Zeghnoun, Abdelkrim ^a,b   Czernichow, Pierre ^a   Declercq, Christophe ^c  

^a ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c Observ Reg S Nord Pas de Calais   (France)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Health; Marginal models; Markov regression models; Ordinal data; Panel studies; Random effects models

Indexed keywords

MARKOV CHAIN; OZONE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION; RESPIRATORY DISEASE;

FRANCE;

EID: 0037730085     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.585     Document Type: Article

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