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ArticleAtmospheric environment (Oxford, England : 1994)2020

A comparison of statistical and machine learning methods for creating national daily maps of ambient PM

Veronica J Berrocal, Yawen Guan, Amanda Muyskens, Haoyu Wang, Brian J Reich, James A Mulholland, Howard H Chang

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Article in Atmospheric environment (Oxford, England : 1994), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Comparison of High Spatial Resolution PMEnvironmental science & technology · 2026
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  4. PMScientific reports · 2025
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  10. Prediction and model evaluation for space-time data.Journal of applied statistics · 2024
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  13. Short-term PMEnvironmental health : a global access science source · 2021
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  15. Furthering a partnership: Air quality modeling and improving public health.Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995) · 2021
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  17. Examining PMEnvironmental research · 2021
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  19. The Impact of Individual Mobility on Long-Term Exposure to Ambient PMInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Veronica J BerrocalUniversity of California - Irvine, Department of Statistics, Irvine, California, USA.
Yawen GuanUniversity of Nebraska, Department of Statistics, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
Amanda MuyskensLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA.
Haoyu WangNorth Carolina State University, Department of Statistics, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
Brian J ReichNorth Carolina State University, Department of Statistics, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
James A MulhollandGeorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.
Howard H ChangEmory University, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Atlanta, USA.

Funding

Strategic Vision & Impact on Environmental HealthP30ES017885 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Dana Dolinoy · 2011 to 2026
$21.3M
Data Integration Methods for Environmental Exposures with Applications to Air Pollution and Asthma MorbidityR01ES027892 · NIEHS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI CHANG, HOWARD H · 2017 to 2021
$2.7M
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES017885NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES027892
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A typical challenge in air pollution epidemiology is to perform detailed exposure assessment for individuals for which health data are available. To address this problem, in the last few years, substantial research efforts have been placed in developing statistical methods or machine learning techniques to generate estimates of air pollution at fine spatial and temporal scales (daily, usually) with complete coverage. However, it is not clear how much the predicted exposures yielded by the various methods differ, and which method generates more reliable estimates. In this paper, we aim to address this gap by evaluating a variety of exposure modeling approaches, comparing their predictive performance. Using PM

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PMCPMC7451200

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