How much does latitude modify temperature–mortality relationship in 13 eastern US cities?

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 365-372

  Xiao, Jianpeng ^a   Peng, Ji ^b   Zhang, Yonghui ^a   Liu, Tao ^a   Rutherford, Shannon ^c   Lin, Hualiang ^a   Qian, Zhengmin ^d   Huang, Cunrui ^c   Luo, Yuan ^a   Zeng, Weilin ^a   Chu, Cordia ^c   Ma, Wenjun ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b Shenzhen Center for Chronic Disease Control ^*  (China)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed lag non linear model; Latitude; Mortality; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AGED; CITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; TEMPERATURE; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CITIES; HUMANS; MORTALITY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84939883167     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: 14321254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-014-0848-y     Document Type: Article

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