Health Risks and Air Pollution — Error Analysis for a Cross‐Sectional Mortality Study

J. H. Pickles

Risk Analysis, 1986, vol. 6, issue 2, 203-212

Abstract: An attempt is made to analyze in quantitative terms the uncertainties in multiple regression estimates of the effects of air pollution on death rates. A range of factors—statistical fluctuations in numbers of deaths, differences in local age distribution, differences in smoking habits, errors in estimated pollution levels, migration, and variability of the characterization of socioeconomic effects—are assessed as potential sources of error. Both the precision and the robustness of the regression calculation are shown to be poor. Examples and illustrative calculations are given based on a study of U. K. death rates around the 1971 Census.

Date: 1986
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