Analyzing temperature effects on mortality within the R environment: The constrained segmented distributed lag parameterization

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1-17

  Muggeo, Vito M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Break point; P splines; R; Segmented relationship; Temperature effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949335585     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v032.i12     Document Type: Article

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