An empirical assessment of exposure measurement error and effect attenuation in bipollutant epidemiologic models

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1216-1223

  Dionisio, Kathie L ^a   Baxter, Lisa K ^a   Chang, Howard H ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE; SULFATE; AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY MODEL ESTIMATE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION OF COEFFICIENT; BIPOLLUTANT EPIDEMIOLOGIC MODEL; CENTRAL SITE MEASUREMENT; EFFECT ATTENUATION; EMPIRICISM; EXPOSURE ERROR; EXPOSURE METRICS; HUMAN; LOCAL POLLUTANT; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MODEL; MODEL COEFFICIENT; MULTIPOLLUTANT MODEL; PARAMETERS; POPULATION EXPOSURE MODEL ESTIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEORGIA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GEORGIA; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84929211179     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307772     Document Type: Article

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