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ArticleEnvironment international2019

An ensemble-based model of PM

Qian Di, Heresh Amini, Liuhua Shi, Itai Kloog, Rachel Silvern, James Kelly, M Benjamin Sabath, Christine Choirat, Petros Koutrakis, Alexei Lyapustin and 3 more

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Article in Environment international, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 321 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
321citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
33.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

321 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 691 citations in OpenAlex.

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261 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Qian DiDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Heath, Boston, MA, United States; Research Center for Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Electronic address: qiandi@mail.harvard.edu.
Heresh AminiDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Heath, Boston, MA, United States.
Liuhua ShiDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Heath, Boston, MA, United States.
Itai KloogDepartment of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
Rachel SilvernDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States.
James KellyU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning & Standards, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States.
M Benjamin SabathDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Heath, Boston, MA, United States.
Christine ChoiratDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Heath, Boston, MA, United States.
Petros KoutrakisDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Heath, Boston, MA, United States.
Alexei LyapustinNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States.
Yujie WangUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Loretta J MickleyJohn A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States.
Joel SchwartzDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Heath, Boston, MA, United States.
Harvard University · USBen-Gurion University of the Negev · ILEnvironmental Protection Agency · USGoddard Space Flight Center · USPlanetary Science Institute · USUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County · US

Funding

Intramural EPA EPA999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Various approaches have been proposed to model PM

Indexed as

Models, StatisticalAir PollutantsAir PollutionAlgorithmsEnvironmental MonitoringMachine LearningParticulate MatterUnited StatesAir PollutantsParticulate MatterEnsemble modelFine particulate matter (PM(2.5))Gradient boostingNeural networkRandom forest

Identifiers

PMID31272018
PMCPMC7063579
OpenAlexW2954586028

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.