Measurement error in two‐stage analyses, with application to air pollution epidemiology

AA Szpiro, CJ Paciorek - Environmetrics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Public health researchers often estimate health effects of exposures (eg, pollution, diet, and
lifestyle) that cannot be directly measured for study subjects. A common strategy in …

Long term effects of traffic noise on mortality in the city of Barcelona, 2004–2007

MA Barceló, D Varga, A Tobias, J Diaz, C Linares… - Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Numerous studies showing statistically significant associations between environmental
noise and adverse health effects already exist for short-term (over one day at most) and long …

Consequences of kriging and land use regression for PM2. 5 predictions in epidemiologic analyses: insights into spatial variability using high-resolution satellite data

SE Alexeeff, J Schwartz, I Kloog… - Journal of exposure …, 2015 - nature.com
Many epidemiological studies use predicted air pollution exposures as surrogates for true
air pollution levels. These predicted exposures contain exposure measurement error, yet …

Use of a pooled cohort to impute cardiovascular disease risk factors across the adult life course

A Zeki Al Hazzouri, E Vittinghoff, Y Zhang… - International journal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background In designing prevention strategies, it may be useful to understand how early
and midlife cardiovascular disease risk factor (CVDRF) exposures affect outcomes that …

Geostatistical air pollution indexes in spatial hedonic models: the case of Madrid, Spain

G Fernández-Avilés, R Minguez… - Journal of Real Estate …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Recent work has shown how spatial econometrics can be applied to a housing-value
hedonic equation that includes air pollution variables. This paper develops a Spatial Durbin …

An integrated GIS and hydrochemical approach to assess groundwater contamination in West Ismailia area, Egypt

MO Arnous, AE El-Rayes - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2013 - Springer
Groundwater is a very important resource across Ismailia area as it is used in domestic,
agricultural, and industrial purposes. This makes it absolutely necessary that the effects of …

Uncertainty in spatially predicted covariates: is it ignorable?

SD Foster, H Shimadzu, R Darnell - Journal of the Royal …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
In ecology, a common form of statistical analysis relates a biological variable to variables
that delineate the physical environment, typically by fitting a regression model or one of its …

Can small-scale agricultural production improve children's health? Examining stunting vulnerability among very young children in Mali, West Africa

K Grace, NN Nagle, G Husak - Annals of the American Association …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Stunting affects an individual's educational and wage-earning potential and can even affect
the next generation of children. Most research of childhood stunting focuses on the …

Bayesian hierarchical models for spatially misaligned data in R

AO Finley, S Banerjee, BD Cook - Methods in Ecology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial misalignment occurs when at least one of multiple outcome variables is missing at
an observed location. For spatial data, prediction of these missing observations should be …

[PDF][PDF] Bayesian Gaussian models for point referenced spatial and spatio-temporal data

KS Bakar, P Kokic - Journal of Statistical Research, 2017 - jsr.isrt.ac.bd
When data is correlated both spatially and temporally, spatial and spatio-temporal modelling
is useful for meaningful interpretation of the parameters of the covariates and for reliable …