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Biologically plausible particulate air pollution mortality concentration-response functions.

Author(s) -

Steven Roberts

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.6428

Subject(s) - particulates , air pollution , pollution , environmental science , particulate pollution , environmental chemistry , function (biology) , chemistry , biology , ecology , evolutionary biology

In this article I introduce an alternative method for estimating particulate air pollution mortality concentration-response functions. This method constrains the particulate air pollution mortality concentration-response function to be biologically plausible--that is, a non-decreasing function of the particulate air pollution concentration. Using time-series data from Cook County, Illinois, the proposed method yields more meaningful particulate air pollution mortality concentration-response function estimates with an increase in statistical accuracy.

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