Analysis of air pollution (PM10) and respiratory morbidity rate using K-maximum sub-array (2-D) algorithm

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 153-157

  Fukuda, Kyoko ^a   Takaoka, Tadao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Health; Human; K maximum sub array

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; HEALTH CARE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

K-MAXIMUM SUB-ARRAY; MORBIDITY RATE; PIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 35248855882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1244002.1244041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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