A Quantile Regression Approach to Evaluate Factors Influencing Residential Indoor Radon Concentration

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 239-250

  Borgoni, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Building factors; Spatial lag; Spatial quantile additive autoregression

Indexed keywords

RADON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

AUTOREGRESSION; BUILDING CHARACTERISTICS; INDOOR RADON CONCENTRATIONS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; QUANTILE REGRESSION; SPATIAL AUTOREGRESSION; SPATIAL EFFECT; SPATIAL LAGS;

BUILDINGS;

BUILDING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INDOOR RADON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VENTILATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 79955943504     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-011-9249-3     Document Type: Article

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