TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Modeling temperature effects on mortality: multiple segmented relationships with common break points
JO  - Biostatistics
A1  - Muggeo, Vito M. R.
SP  - 613
EP  - 620
VL  - 9
IS  - 4
N2  - We present a model for estimation of temperature effects on mortality that is able to capture jointly the typical features of every temperature-death relationship, that is, nonlinearity and delayed effect of cold and heat over a few days. Using a segmented approximation along with a doubly penalized spline-based distributed lag parameterization, estimates and relevant standard errors of the cold- and heat-related risks and the heat tolerance are provided. The model is applied to data from Milano, Italy.    <p></p>    <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1465-4644
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxm057
ID  - ref1
ER  -