A time-series analysis of relevant pollutants in Hamilton (Ontario) and induced mortality
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Abstract
The relationship between air pollution and public health has gained increasing attention in the past decade. Many time-series analyses have been conducted worldwide, including in all the major cities of the United States, Europe, and Asia. However, the most current time-series analysis study of Ontario, Canada dates back to 2012 and includes only a single city, calling the need of a more recent study at a provincial scale. As a result, we propose to conduct time-series analyses of major Ontario cities and then use a hierarchical model to pool the results and construct a dose-response relationship and generate a predictive regression.
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2016. A time-series analysis of relevant pollutants in Hamilton (Ontario) and induced mortality. PeerJ Preprints 4:e1904v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1904v1Author comment
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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Author Contributions
Yu Fan Zeng conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Adree Khondker conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.
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The raw data has been supplied as a Supplemental Dataset.
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The authors received no funding for this work.
