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Title: The Correlation Between Ozone and Respiratory Illness using Project INDICATOR data for Urbana-Champaign
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Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: The purpose of this analysis is to examine the correspondence between short-term ozone exposure and respiratory illness hospital reports, adopting from the methods used in Metaanalysis of the Association between Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Ozone and Respiratory Hospital Admissions by Meng Ji, Daniel S. Cohan, and Michelle L. Bell. This meta-analysis was published in 2011 on studies that have connected asthma cases in hospitals and ozone measurements in air quality reports. Studies seem to suggest that there is a strong correlation between asthma and ozone level increases in the outdoor air. The point of exploring their research is to see if one could take real time collected data from an area such as Champaign-Urbana and prove or disprove the results of this meta-analysis. The datasets to attempt fulfilling this purpose have been drawn from Project Indicator, the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) Air Quality System (AQS), and Midwestern Regional Climate Centers (MRCC) Application Tools Environment (cli-MATE). The tools required to accomplish this analysis included Oracles Data Miner, MS Excel, and R and along with methods for analysis. These included linear regression to understand the interaction of the quantitative data from the two main data variables, respiratory illnesses and ground ozone and classification to explore in more detail other variables that interacts with respiratory illnesses and ground ozone. The results of the study ultimate suggested that ozone and respiratory illness correlate with multiple environmental variables though they do not significantly correlate with each other.
Url: http://cirssweb.lis.illinois.edu/SODA/projects/09_Surbeck/SP14LIS590AD_PAPER.pdf
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Authors: Surbeck, Elizabeth J
Publisher: University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign
Data Collections: IPUMS Health Surveys - NHIS
Topics: Health
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