A framework for exploration and cleaning of environmental data – Tehran air quality data experience

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 821-829

  Shamsipour, Mansour ^a,b,c   Farzadfar, Farshad ^c,d   Gohari, Kimiya ^c,e   Parsaeian, Mahboubeh ^a,c   Amini, Hassan ^f,g,h   Rabiei, Katayoun ⁱ   Hassanvand, Mohammad Sadegh ^a,b   Navidi, Iman ^a,c   Fotouhi, Akbar ^a   Naddafi, Kazem ^a,b   Sarrafzadegan, Nizal ⁱ   Mansouri, Anita ^c,e   Mesdaghinia, Alireza ^b   Larijani, Bagher ^d   Yunesian, Masud ^a,b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^h KURDISTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

ⁱ ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Air quality data management; EBD NASBOD; Iran; Outlier detection; Tehran

Indexed keywords

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BETA RADIATION; CLEANING; DATA ANALYSIS; DUST CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IRAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVALUATION STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; METHODOLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IRAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84916210406     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: 17353947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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