A Bayesian hierarchical model for urban air quality prediction under uncertainty

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 8464-8469

  Liu, Yong ^a   Guo, Huaicheng ^a   Mao, Guozhu ^b   Yang, Pingjian ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical model; Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC); Multiple linear regression (MLR); Urban air quality

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION METHODS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MODAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM VARIABLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AIR QUALITY MODELS; AVERAGE RELATIVE ERRORS; BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODEL; BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODELS; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREES; CORRELATION ANALYSES; DRIVING VARIABLES; EXTERNAL DRIVINGS; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSES; LITERATURE DATUM; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO (MCMC); MEAN VALUES; MEDIAN VALUES; MODEL FITTEST; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION (MLR); MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHODS; OBSERVED DATUM; PARAMETERS ESTIMATIONS; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PRIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY CHANGES; URBAN AIR QUALITIES; URBAN AIR QUALITY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; PREDICTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; FUJIAN; XIAMEN;

EID: 56949108831     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.08.018     Document Type: Article

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