Estimating constrained concentration-response functions between air pollution and health

Environmetrics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 228-237

  Powell, Helen ^a   Lee, Duncan ^a   Bowman, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical modelling; Integrated splines; Monotonic concentration response function

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEALTH RISK; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY DISEASE;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84862792606     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.1150     Document Type: Article

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