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Comparing air quality indices aggregated by pollutant

2011

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.

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
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An aggregate AQI: comparing different standardizations and introducing a variability index

2012

Many studies demonstrate a strong relationship between air pollution and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. For this reason, assessing air pollution, and conveying information about its possible adverse health effects, may encourage population and policy makers to reduce those activities increasing pollution levels. In this paper a relative index of variability, to be associated with the aggregate Air Quality Index (AQI) among pollutants proposed by Ruggieri and Plaia (2011), is developed in order to better investigate air pollution conditions for the whole area of a city/region. The most widely-used and up to date pollution indices, based mainly on AQI computed by the US Environmenta…

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