Constructing representative air quality indicators with measures of uncertainty

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 109-126

  Lee, Duncan ^a   Ferguson, Claire ^a   Marian Scott, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air quality indicators; Geostatistical modelling; Preferential sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650859924     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00658.x     Document Type: Article

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