A distance-decay variable selection strategy for land use regression modeling of ambient air pollution exposures

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3890-3898

  Su, J G ^a   Jerrett, M ^a   Beckerman, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; GIS; Land use regression; Model selection; Spatial distance decay

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS; AIR POLLUTION EXPOSURES; AMBIENT AIR POLLUTIONS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; COVARIATE; COVARIATES; DISTANCE DECAYS; EMPIRICAL COMPARISONS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; FULL SPECTRUMS; GIS; LAND USE REGRESSION; LIMITED BUFFERS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODEL SELECTION; NEW SERIES; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS; POLLUTANT LEVELS; POLLUTION CONCENTRATIONS; POLLUTION LEVELS; SELECTION PROCESS; SPATIAL DISTANCE DECAY; SYSTEMATIC METHODS; URBAN AREAS; VARIABLE SELECTIONS;

AIR QUALITY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CORRELATION METHODS; CURVE FITTING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; PHOTOMASKS; POLLUTION; REGIONAL PLANNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DECAY (ORGANIC);

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECOMPOSITION; LAND USE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LAND USE; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 65049085783     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.01.061     Document Type: Article

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