Using cell phone location to assess misclassification errors in air pollution exposure estimation

• Published in: Environmental pollution (1987) Vol. 233; pp. 261 - 266
• Main Authors: Yu, Haofei, Russell, Armistead, Mulholland, James, Huang, Zhijiong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2018
• Subjects: air pollutants; Air Pollutants - analysis; Air pollution; Air Pollution - analysis; Air Pollution - statistics & numerical data; air quality; Call detail record; Cell Phone; China; Environmental Exposure - analysis; Environmental Exposure - statistics & numerical data; epidemiology; Exposure estimation; Exposure misclassification; Health assessment; Humans; China; Call detail record; Air pollution; Exposure estimation; Health assessment; Exposure misclassification

Air pollution epidemiologic and health impact studies often rely on home addresses to estimate individual subject's pollution exposure. In this study, we used detailed cell phone location data, the call detail record (CDR), to account for the impact of spatiotemporal subject mobility on estimat...