Sims Three Year Study on Statistics and Environmental Factors in Health. Technical Progress Report No. 1.

摘要

Progress is reported for the activities of the Siam Institute for mathematics and society (SIMS),Columbia University,and Stanford University. The SIMS report is concerned with the use of animal experiments in establishing tolerance limits for human exposure to environmental toxicants;valid assessment of the health consequences of occupational and other specialized toxic exposures;mathematical theories for the kinetics of carcinogenesis;data coding,storage,access,and analysis,relationship between air pollution and respiratory diseases;and air pollution assessment. The Columbia University report is concerned with development of statistical methods and models for describing the effects of the environment,measured by pollution and weather variables,on respiratory diseases. The Stanford University report is concerned with spatial distribution of air pollutants,relation of pollutant concentrations to morbidity and mortality statistics,and other topics. (ERA citation 02:025479)