Analyzing Temperature Effects on Mortality Within the R Environment: The Constrained Segmented Distributed Lag Parameterization

Analyzing Temperature Effects on Mortality Within the R Environment: The Constrained Segmented Distributed Lag Parameterization

Here we present and discuss the <b>R</b> package <b>modTempEff</b> including a set of functions aimed at modelling temperature effects on mortality with time series data. The functions fit a particular log linear model which allows to capture the two main features of mortalit...

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Main Author: Vito M. R. Muggeo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2010-01-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Subjects:
temperature effects
segmented relationship
break point
P-splines
R
Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/v32/i12/paper

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