How robust are the estimated effects of air pollution on health? Accounting for model uncertainty using Bayesian model averaging

Highlights • We explored the sensitivity of the pollution-health effect to three factors.• Estimation of NO2, choice of deprivation and choice of spatial autocorrelation model.• Choice of these factors leads to a wide variation in pollution-health effects.• BMA is utilised to estimate an overall effect while accounting for model uncertainty.• Overall, a positive but borderline pollution-health effect was obtained.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

• Publication date

  2016-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.sste.2016.04.001PMID 27494960PMCID 4985538
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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