Examining Extreme Weather Effects on Birth Weight From the Individual Effect to Spatiotemporal Aggregation Effects

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 490-507

  Lin, Ge ^a   Zhang, Tonglin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient temperature; Birth weight; Extreme temperature days; Moran's I; Spatial clusters; Weather

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEIGHT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866731348     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: 15372693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13253-012-0102-1     Document Type: Article

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