Analysis of health outcome time series data in epidemiological studies

Environmetrics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 101-117

  Touloumi, Giota ^a   Atkinson, Richard ^b   Le Tertre, Alain ^c   Samoli, Evangelia ^a   Schwartz, Joel ^d   Schindler, Christian ^e   Vonk, Judith M ^f   Rossi, Giuseppe ^g   Saez, Marc ^h   Rabszenko, Daniel ⁱ   Katsouyanni, Klea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g CNR   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Meta regression; Methodology; Mortality; Poisson regression; Time series

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORTALITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 12144290750     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.623     Document Type: Article

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