Comparison of time series and case-crossover analyses of air pollution and hospital admission data

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1064-1070

  Fung, Karen Y ^a   Krewski, Daniel ^b   Chen, Yue ^b   Burnett, Rick ^b,c   Cakmak, Sabit ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Case crossover design; Computer simulation; Hospital admissions; LOESS smoothing; Natural splines; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HEALTH IMPACT; METHODOLOGY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CANADA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0346724473     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyg246     Document Type: Article

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