Current Publications
 
  • Bell ML, McDermott A, Zeger SL, Samet JM, and Dominici F (2005). "Ozone and Short-Term Mortality in 95 US Urban Communities, 1987-2000," Journal of American Medical Association, 292, 2371-2378. [PubMed | PDF | software | listen to the NPR interview]

  • Welty LJ and Zeger SL. "Are the Acute Effects of PM10 on Mortality in NMMAPS the Result of Inadequate Control for Weather and Season? A Sensitivity Analysis using Flexible Distributed Lag Models." American Journal of Epidemiology, to appear. [preprint]

  • Peng RD, Dominici F, Pastor-Barriuso R, Zeger SL, Samet JM (2005). "Seasonal analyses of air pollution and mortality in 100 U.S. cities," American Journal of Epidemiology, 161 (6), 585--594. [PubMed | full text | data and software]

  • Peng RD, Welty LJ (2004). "The NMMAPSdata package," R News 4 (2), 10--14. [PDF | software]

  • The National Mortality, Morbidity, and Air Pollution Study: Recent Updates.

  • A Report from the Health Effects Institute: Re-Analyses of the NMMAPS Database [PDF] figures [PDF] contains revised analyses of the health effects of particulate matter on mortality reported in the HEI Report Number 2: The National Morbidity, Mortality, and Air Pollution Study Part II: Morbidity andMortality from Air Pollution in the United States, Number 94, The Health Effects Institute, Cambridge, MA.

     
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