Hierarchical regression with misaligned spatial data: Relating ambient ozone and pediatric asthma ER visits in Atlanta

Environmetrics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 537-557

  Zhu, Li ^a   Carlin, Bradley P ^b   Gelfand, Alan E ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Bayesian methods; Change of support problem; Geographic information system (GIS); Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Poisson regression

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ASTHMA; METHODOLOGY; OZONE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042128693     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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