A conditional expectation approach for associating ambient air pollutant exposures with health outcomes

Environmetrics

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 877-894

  Wanneirniehler, Kathleen A ^a   Lyles, Robert H ^b   Waller, Lance A ^b   Hoekstra, Robert M ^a   Klein, Mitchel ^b   Tolbert, Paige ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Conditional expectation; Environmental epidemiology; Maximum likelihood; Measurement error; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH IMPACT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURROGATE METHOD; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATLANTA; GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350453570     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.978     Document Type: Article

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