Indoor air pollution and pulmonary performance: Investigating errors in exposure assessment

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:6146088

Hasabelnaby, N A; Ware, J H; Fuller, W A; Glesser, L

Pulmonary function measurements on pre-adolescent children and indoor air pollution measurements in the homes of these children are used to illustrate estimation techniques for linear regression models containing independent variables measured with error. In the data set, replicate measures of indoor air pollutant concentrations provide one method of estimating measurement error variances. Surrogate information in the form of cigarettes smoked is also available for the pollutant of interest. Several estimation procedures are presented, and two estimators were combined, one based on surrogate information and one based on replication information, using generalized least squares.

• Research Organization: Iowa State Univ. of Science and Technology, Ames, IA (USA). Dept. of Statistics
• OSTI ID: 6146088
• Report Number(s): PB-91-100917/XAB; CNN: EPA-R-813495-01
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Pub. in Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 8, 1109-1126(Aug 1989)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
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HEALTH HAZARDS
LUNGS
SENSITIVITY
AIR POLLUTION MONITORING
CHILDREN
DATA COVARIANCES
DYNAMIC FUNCTION STUDIES
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
LEAST SQUARE FIT
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
TOBACCO SMOKES
AEROSOLS
AGE GROUPS
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BODY
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DISPERSIONS
HAZARDS
MATHEMATICS
MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD FIT
NUMERICAL SOLUTION
ORGANS
POLLUTION
RESIDUES
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
SMOKES
SOLS
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