Relation between temperature and suicide mortality in Japan in the presence of other confounding factors using time-series analysis with a semiparametric approach

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-43

  Likhvar, Victoria ^c   Honda, Yasushi ^a   Ono, Masaji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Association of International Research Initiatives for Environmental Studies   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

GAM; Model choice; Nonparametric analysis; Suicide; Temperature mortality relation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMIDITY; JAPAN; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUICIDE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SUICIDE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78651236373     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-010-0163-0     Document Type: Article

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