Meta-Analysis Methods to Estimate the Shape and Uncertainty in the Association Between Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter and Cause-Specific Mortality Over the Global Concentration Range

Risk Analysis

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1813-1825

  Shin, Hwashin Hyun ^a   Cohen, Aaron J ^b   Pope, C Arden ^c   Ezzati, Majid ^d   Lim, Stephen S ^e   Hubbell, Bryan J ^f   Burnett, Richard T ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b Health Effects Institute   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient particulate matter; Bayesian analysis; Global Burden of Disease; risk distribution; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS; AMBIENT PARTICULATE MATTER; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY DISTRIBUTIONS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 85083944928     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/risa.12421     Document Type: Article

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