Spatiotemporal modeling of ozone levels in quebec (Canada): A comparison of kriging, land-use regression (LUR), and combined bayesian maximum entropy-LUR approaches

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 970-976

  Adam Poupart, Ariane ^a   Brand, Allan ^b   Fournier, Michel ^c   Jerrett, Michael ^d   Smargiassi, Audrey ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c Gouvernement du Quebec   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; OZONE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; BAYES THEOREM; CHEMICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; QUEBEC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BAYES THEOREM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OZONE; QUEBEC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84906858621     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306566     Document Type: Article

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