Time series analysis on the health effects of temperature: Advancements and limitations

Environmental Research

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 633-638

  Gasparrini, Antonio ^a   Armstrong, Ben ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed lag; Harvesting; Multivariate meta analysis; Temperature; Time series

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; COLD EXPOSURE; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH; HEAT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE RELATED PHENOMENA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COLD TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME;

EID: 77954957016     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2010.06.005     Document Type: Note

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