Model choice in time series studies of air pollution and mortality

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 179-203

  Peng, Roger D ^a   Dominici, Francesca ^a   Louis, Thomas A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Log linear regression; Mortality; Semiparametric regression; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644794010     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00410.x     Document Type: Review

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