Relating ambient particulate matter concentration levels to mortality using an exposure simulator

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 481, 2008, Pages 137-148

  Calder, Catherine A ^a   Holloman, Christopher H ^a   Bortnick, Steven M ^b   Strauss, Warren ^c   Morara, Michele ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JP Morgan Chase   (United States)

^c BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical modeling; Markov chain Monte Carlo; PM2.5; Poisson regression; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 42349086725     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214507000000392     Document Type: Article

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