Seasonal confounding in air pollution and health time-series studies: Effect on air pollution effect estimates

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 4164-4178

  Touloumi, G ^a   Samoli, E ^a   Pipikou, M ^a   Le Tertre, A ^b   Atkinson, R ^c   Katsouyanni, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

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

Author keywords

Air pollution; Mortality; Penalized splines; Semi parametric models; Time series

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH STATISTICS; MORTALITY; PARAMETRIC TEST; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EUROPE; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PARTICULATE MATTER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33845866131     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2681     Document Type: Article

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