Flexible modeling of exposure-response relationship between long-term average levels of particulate air pollution and mortality in the american cancer society study

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A

Volumn 66, Issue 16-19, 2003, Pages 1625-1654

  Abrahamowicz, Michal ^a,b   Schopflocher, Tom ^b   Leffondré, Karen ^b   Du Berger, Roxane ^b   Krewski, Daniel ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFATE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAZARD; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBESITY; PARAMETRIC TEST; PARTICULATE MATTER; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLING; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; AIR POLLUTANT; ALGORITHM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHMS; AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; MORTALITY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SMOKING; SULFATES;

EID: 0142093034     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287390306426     Document Type: Article

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