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Comparing air quality indices aggregated by pollutant

Antonella PlaiaMariantonietta Ruggieri

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Functional principal component analysisPollutantHuman healthIndex (economics)Aggregate (data warehouse)StatisticsAir pollutionmedicineEnvironmental scienceAggregate AQI standardizing transformation Relative Risk relative variabilitymedicine.disease_causeAir quality indexHealth impact assessment

description

In this paper a new aggregate Air Quality Index (AQI) useful for describing the global air pollution situation for a given area is proposed. The index, unlike most of currently used AQIs, takes into account the combined effects of all the considered pollutants to human health. Its good performance, tested by means of a simulation plan, is confirmed by a comparison with two other indices proposed in the literature, one of which is based on the Relative Risk of daily mortality, considering an application to real data.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2011-01-01
http://hdl.handle.net/10447/62314