Practical large-scale spatio-temporal modeling of particulate matter concentrations

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 370-397

  Paciorek, Christopher J ^a,b,c   Yanosky, Jeff D ^a,b,c   Puett, Robin C ^a,b,c   Laden, Francine ^a,b,c   Suh, Helen H ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive model; Air pollution; Backfitting; Epidemiology; Geoadditive model; Kriging; Smoothing; Stochastic EM

Indexed keywords

EID: 67449125538     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOAS204     Document Type: Article

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