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Environmental regulations are usually set based on the effect of a pollutant on human health. In recent years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has become aware of the potential harmful effects of particulate matter (PM) in ambient air; various epidemiological studies published in the mid 1990s show evidence of an association between daily PM measurements and nonaccidental deaths amongst the elderly. A common feature of these studies has been that they examine ambient air quality in a large city and its environs but for aggregated measurements, taken from the monitoring stations, over space. In this paper, we preserve the spatial component of the particulate-matter variable and carry out spatial statistical analyses that allow us to make maps of PM exposure with known confidence.
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Cressie, N. et al. (1999). Spatial Analysis of Particulate Matter in an Urban Environment. In: Gómez-Hernández, J., Soares, A., Froidevaux, R. (eds) geoENV II — Geostatistics for Environmental Applications. Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9297-0_4
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