Recovering information from synthetic air quality indices

Environmetrics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 345-359

  Bruno, Francesca ^a   Cocchi, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental indices; GEV GPD; Index distribution; Kernel smoothing; Multinomial logit regression

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; DECISION MAKING; GRAPHICAL METHOD; LOGIT ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT;

EID: 34248216079     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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