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Spatiotemporal analysis of air pollution and asthma patient visits in Taipei, Taiwan

Ta-Chien Chan1,2,7,9, Mei-Lien Chen3, I-Feng Lin4,5, Cheng-Hua Lee6,8, Po-Huang Chiang7, Da-Wei Wang10,9 and Jen-Hsiang Chuang1,5,9*

Author Affiliations

1 National Health Command Center, Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

2 Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

3 Institute of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences & Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

4 Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

5 Institute of Public Health, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

6 Institute of Health Care Administration, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

7 Center for Health Policy Research and Development, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan, R.O.C

8 Bureau of National Health Insurance, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

9 Institute of BioMedical Informatics, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

10 Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

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International Journal of Health Geographics 2009, 8:26 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-8-26

Published: 7 May 2009

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Additional file 1:

Model parameters used in the Python script. Theses parameters used for automatic estimation of daily average concentration by Kriging method.

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Additional file 2:

Cross-validation of Kriging prediction. Cross-validation of Kriging prediction was measured by average prediction error (PE) and root mean square standardized (RMSS).

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Additional file 3:

an illustration of 10% increase of PM10. The 10% increase of air pollutant, PM10 was shown as an example to express the elevation of concentration in our effect's calculation.

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GAM model. The full models of GAM were listed. Model 1 was a single pollutant model. Model 2 was a four pollutants model.

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