Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
A Comparative Analysis Of The Chronic Effects Of Fine Particulate Matter, Sorina E. Eftim, Holly Janes, Aidan Mcdermott, Jonathan M. Samet, Francesca Dominici
A Comparative Analysis Of The Chronic Effects Of Fine Particulate Matter, Sorina E. Eftim, Holly Janes, Aidan Mcdermott, Jonathan M. Samet, Francesca Dominici
Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers
The American Cancer Society study (ACS) and the Harvard Six Cities study (SCS) are the two landmark cohort studies for estimating the chronic effects of fine particulate matter PM2.5 on mortality. To date, no comparative analysis of these studies has been carried out using a different study design, study period, data, and modeling approach. In this paper, we estimate the chronic effects of PM on mortality for the period 2000-2002 by using mortality data from Medicare and \PM levels from the National Air Pollution Monitoring Network for the same counties included in the SCS and the ACS. We use a …