Estimating daily nitrogen dioxide level: exploring traffic effects

DOI10.1214/13-AOAS642MaRDI QIDQ386764zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Lixun Zhang, Yongtao Guan, Brian P. Leaderer, Theodore R. Holford

Publication date 10 December 2013

Published in The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.7478, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1380804815

zbMATH Keywords

air pollutionBayesian modelEPAlongitudinal modelnitrogen dioxide

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics (62P12)

Abstract: Data used to assess acute health effects from air pollution typically have good temporal but poor spatial resolution or the opposite. A modified longitudinal model was developed that sought to improve resolution in both domains by bringing together data from three sources to estimate daily levels of nitrogen dioxide ($mathrm{NO}_2$) at a geographic location. Monthly $mathrm{NO}_2$ measurements at 316 sites were made available by the Study of Traffic, Air quality and Respiratory health (STAR). Four US Environmental Protection Agency monitoring stations have hourly measurements of $mathrm{NO}_2$. Finally, the Connecticut Department of Transportation provides data on traffic density on major roadways, a primary contributor to $mathrm{NO}_2$ pollution. Inclusion of a traffic variable improved performance of the model, and it provides a method for estimating exposure at points that do not have direct measurements of the outcome. This approach can be used to estimate daily variation in levels of $mathrm{NO}_2$ over a region.

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