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Activity Number:
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116
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 4, 2008 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistics and the Environment
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| Abstract - #300445 |
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Title:
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Health Impacts Under Heat Waves
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Author(s):
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Bo Li*+ and Doug Nychka
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Companies:
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National Center for Atmospheric Research and National Center of Atmospheric Research
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Address:
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, Boulder, CO, 80303,
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Abstract:
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It is well known that heat waves can cause a number of deaths and that it has been predicted future heat waves in Europe and North America will become more intense, more frequent, and longer-lasting in the second half of the 21st century. The deaths from past heat waves and the predicted growth of future heat waves raise an urgent question: What is the association between human health and heat waves? We tackle this question by studying the morbidity and weather data in five major Wisconsin cities. A generalized additive model (GAM) with space-time varying parameters is employed to analyze the relationship between the morbidity (hospital and emergency room admissions) and weather parameters in Wisconsin. This analysis is coupled with additional information from air pollution monitoring stations and adjusted by various confounding variables.
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