Bayesian spatial-temporal model for cardiac congenital anomalies and ambient air pollution risk assessment

Environmetrics

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 673-684

  Warren, Joshua ^a   Fuentes, Montserrat ^b   Herring, Amy ^a   Langlois, Peter ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental health; Multivariate statistics; Nonparametric Bayes; Spatial statistics; Stick breaking prior

Indexed keywords

ABNORMALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CHILD HEALTH; DATA SET; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; HEALTH IMPACT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871673444     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.2174     Document Type: Article

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