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Publications Details for Grant Number R835872C004

A Causal Inference Framework to Support Policy Decisions by Evaluating the Effectiveness of Past Air Pollution Control Strategies for the Entire United States

RFA: Air, Climate And Energy (ACE) Centers: Science Supporting Solutions (2014)

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Journal Article Braun D, Gorfine M, Parmigiani G, Arvold ND, Dominici F, Zigler C.Propensity scores with misclassified treatment assignment: a likelihood-based adjustment.Biostatistics2017;18(4):695-710. R835872 (2016)
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Journal Article Casey J, Su J, Henneman L, Zigler C, Neophytou A, Catalano R, Gondalia R, Chen Y, Kaye L, Moyer S, Combs V, Simrall G, Smith T, Sublett J, Barrett M. Improved asthma outcomes observed in the vicinity of coal power plant retirement, retrofit and conversion to natural gas. NATURE ENERGY 2020;5(5):398. R835872 (2020)
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Journal Article Di Q, Wang Y, Zanobetti A, Wang Y, Koutrakis P, Choirat C, Dominici F, Schwartz JD. Air pollution and mortality in the Medicare population. New England Journal of Medicine 2017;376(26):2513-2522. R834798 (Final)
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Journal Article Kim C, Tec M, Zigler C. Bayesian nonparametric adjustment of confounding. BIOMETRICS 2023;Early Access R835872 (2021)
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Journal Article Lee M, Schwartz J, Wang Y, Dominici F, Zanobetti A. Long-term effect of fine particulate matter on hospitalization with dementia. Environmental Pollution 2019;254:112. R834798 (Final)
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Journal Article Makar M, Antonelli J, Di Q, Cutler D, Schwartz J, Dominici F. Estimating the causal effect of low levels of fine particulate matter on hospitalization. Epidemiology 2017;28(5):627-634. R835872 (2016)
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Journal Article Papadogeorgou G, Dominici F. A causal exposure response function with local adjustment for confounding: Estimating health effects of exposure to low levels of ambient fine particulate matter. Annals of Applied Statistics 2020; 14(2):850-871. R835872 (2020)
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Journal Article Qiu M, ZIgler C, Selin N. Statistical and machine learning methods for evaluating trends in air quality under changing meteorological conditions. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 2022;22(16):10551-10566. R835872 (2021)
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Journal Article Wikle N, Hanks E, Henneman L, Zigler C. A Mechanistic Model of Annual Sulfate Concentrations in the United States. JOURNALS OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION 2022;. R834798 (Final)
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Journal Article Wu X, Nethery RC, Sabath MB, Braun D, Dominici F. Air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States:Strengths and limitations of an ecological regression analysis. Science Advances 2020; 6(45) R834677 (Final)
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Journal Article Wu X, Braun D, Schwartz J, Kioumourtzoglou M, Dominici F. Evaluating the impact of long-term exposure to fine particulate matter on mortality among the elderly. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020;6(29):eaba5692. R834798 (Final)
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Journal Article Zigler CM, Choirat C, Dominici F. Impact of National Ambient Air Quality Standards nonattainment designations on particulate pollution and health. Epidemiology 2018;29(2):165-174. R835872 (2016)
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Journal Article Zigler C. Invited Commentary: The Promise and Pitfalls of Causal Inference With Multivariate Environmental Exposures. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 2021;190(12):2658-2661 R835872 (2020)
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Journal Article Zigler C, Liu V, Mealli F, Forastiere L. Bipartite interference and air pollution transport: estimating health effects of power plant interventions. BIOSTATISTICS 2025;26(1) R835872 (Final)
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Journal Article Dominici F, Zigler C. Best practices for gauging evidence of causality in air pollution epidemiology. American Journal of Epidemiology 2017;186(12):1303-1309. R834798 (Final)
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Journal Article Lin C, Christiani D, Lin RT. 0059 A global perspective on coal-fired power plants and lung cancer mortality. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2017;74:A16. R835872 (2018)
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Journal Article Cutler D, Dominici F. A breath of bad air:cost of the Trump environmental agenda may lead to 80 000 extra deaths per decade. JAMA 2018;319(22):2261-2262. R835872 (2018)
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Journal Article Lin CK, Lin RT, Chen PC, Wang P, De Marcellis-Warin N, Zigler C, Christiani DC. A global perspective on sulfur oxide controls in coal-fired power plants and cardiovascular disease. Scientific Reports 2018;8(1):2611. R835872 (2018)
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Journal Article Papadogeorgou G, Choirat C, Zigler CM. Adjusting for unmeasured spatial confounding with distance adjusted propensity score matching. Biostatistics 2018;20(2):256-272. R835872 (2017)
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Journal Article Schwartz JD, Wang Y, Kloog I, Yitshak-Sade MA, Dominici F, Zanobetti A. Estimating the effects of PM on life expectancy using causal modeling methods. Environmental Health Perspectives 2018;126(12):127002.. R835872 (2019)
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Journal Article Wilson A, Zigler CM, Patel CJ, Dominici F. Model‐averaged confounder adjustment for estimating multivariate exposure effects with linear regression. Biometrics 2018;74(3):1034-1044. R835872 (2017)
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Journal Article Wei Y, Wang Y, Di Q, Choirat C, Wang Y, Koutrakis P, Zanobetti A, Dominici F and Schwartz JD. Short term exposure to fine particulate matter and hospital admission risks and costs in the Medicare population:time stratified, case crossover study. BMJ 2019; 367:l6258. R834798 (Final)
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Journal Article Henneman LR, Mickley LJ, Zigler CM. Air pollution accountability of energy transitions:the relative importance of point source emissions and wind fields in exposure changes. Environmental Research Letters 2019;14(11):115003. R835872 (2019)
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Journal Article Wu X, Braun D, Kioumourtzoglou MA, Choirat C, Di Q, Dominici F. Causal inference in the context of an error prone exposure:air pollution and mortality. The Annals of Applied Statistics 2019;13(1):520-547. R835872 (2018)
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Journal Article Papadogeorgou G, Mealli F, Zigler CM. Causal inference with interfering units for cluster and population level treatment allocation programs. Biometrics 2019; 75(3):778-787. R835872 (2018)
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Journal Article Henneman LR, Choirat C, Ivey C, Cummiskey K, Zigler CM. Characterizing population exposure to coal emissions sources in the United States using the HyADS model. Atmospheric Environment 2019;203:271-280. R835872 (2018)
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Journal Article Yitshak-Sade M, Blomberg AJ, Zanobetti A, Schwartz JD, Coull BA, Kloog I, Dominici F and Koutrakis P. County-level radon exposure and all-cause mortality risk among Medicare beneficiaries. Environ Int 2019; 130:104865. R835872 (2019)
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Journal Article Goldman GT and Dominici F. Don't abandon evidence and process on air pollution policy. Science 2019; 363(6434):1398-1400. R835872C004 (Final)
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Journal Article Gilstrap LG, Dominici F, Wang Y, El-Sady MS, Singh A, Di Carli MF, Falk RH, Dorbala S. Epidemiology of cardiac amyloidosis-associated heart failure hospitalizations among fee-for-service medicare beneficiaries in the United States. Circulation Heart Failure 2019;12(6):e005407. R835872 (2018)
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Journal Article Nethery RC, Mealli F, Dominici F. Estimating population average causal effects in the presence of non-overlap:the effect of natural gas compressor station exposure on cancer mortality. The Annals of Applied Statistics 2019;13(2):1242-1267. R835872 (2019)
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Journal Article Antonelli J, Parmigiani G, Dominici F. High-dimensional confounding adjustment using continuous spike and slab priors. Bayesian Analysis 2019;14(3):805-828. R835872 (2019)
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Journal Article Rhee J, Dominici F, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Wang Y, Di Q, Balmes J, Christiani DC. Impact of long-term exposures to ambient PM2.5 and ozone on ARDS risk for older adults in the United States. Chest 2019; 156(1):71-79. R835872 (2018)
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Journal Article Jhun I, Kim J, Cho B, Gold DR, Schwartz J, Coull BA, Zanobetti A, Rice MB, Mittleman MA, Garshick E, Vokonas P. Synthesis of Harvard Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Center studies on traffic-related particulate pollution and cardiovascular outcomes in the Greater Boston Area. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 2019;69(8):900-917. R835872 (2019)
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Journal Article Heo S, Nori-Sarma A, Lee K, Benmarhnia T, Dominici F and Bell ML. The Use of a Quasi-Experimental Study on the Mortality Effect of a Heat Wave Warning System in Korea. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2019; 16(12). R835872C004 (Final)
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Journal Article Anderson GB, Barnes EA, Bell ML, Dominici F. The future of climate epidemiology:opportunities for advancing health research in the context of climate change. American Journal of Epidemiology 2019;188(5):866-872. R835871 (2019)
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Journal Article Carone M, Dominici F and Sheppard L. In Pursuit of Evidence in Air Pollution Epidemiology:The Role of Causally Driven Data Science. Epidemiology 2020; 31(1):1-6. R835872C004 (Final)
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Journal Article Liao SX, Henneman L and Zigler C. Posterior predictive treatment assignment methods for causal inference in the context of time-varying treatments. Epidemiologic Methods 2020; 9(1):20190024. R835872C004 (Final)
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Journal Article Nethery RC, Mealli F, Sacks JD, Dominici F. Evaluation of the Health Impacts of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments Using Causal Inference and Machine Learning. Journal of the American Statistical Association 2020:1-12 R835872 (2020)
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Journal Article Lee K, Small DS and Dominici F. Discovering Heterogeneous Exposure Effects Using Randomization Inference in Air Pollution Studies. J Am Stat Assoc 2021; 116(534):569-580. R835872C004 (Final)
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Journal Article Henneman LRF, Shen H, Hogrefe C, Russell AG, Zigler CM. Four decades of United States mobile source pollutants:Spatial–temporal trends assessed by ground-based monitors, air quality models, and satellites. Environmental Science & Technology 2021;55:882–92 R835872C004 (Final)
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Journal Article Henneman LR, Choirat C, Zigler CM. Accountability assessment of health improvements in the United States associated with reduced coal emissions between 2005 and 2012. Epidemiology,/em> 2019;30(4):477-485.. R835872 (2019)
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Journal Article Henneman LR, Dedoussi IC, Casey JA, Choirat C, Barrett SR, Zigler CM. Comparisons of simple and complex methods for quantifying exposure to individual point source air pollution emissions. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology 2020:1-10. R835872 (2019)
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Journal Article Kim C, Henneman LR, Choirat C, Zigler CM. Health effects of power plant emissions through ambient air quality. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society:Series A. 2020. [Epub ahead of print]. R835872 (2019)
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Journal Article Henneman LRF, Rasel MM, Choirat C, Anenberg SC and Zigler C. Inequitable Exposures to U.S. Coal Power Plant-Related PM2.5:22 Years and Counting. Environ Health Perspect 2023; 131(3):37005. R835872C004 (Final)
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Journal Article Liao SX, Zigler CM. Uncertainty in the design stage of two‐stage Bayesian propensity score analysis. Statistics in Medicine 2020. [Epub ahead of print]. doi:10.1002/sim.8486. R835872 (2019)
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Presentation Tec M, Scott J, Zigler CM. Weather2vec:representation learning for causal inference with non-local confounding in air pollution and climate studies. Presented at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington DC, February, 2023. R835872C004 (Final)
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Presentation A Causal Inference Approach for Estimating an Exposure Response Curve:Estimating Health Effects at Low Pollution Levels, Georgia Papadogeorgou, International Society for Bayesian Analysis. R835872C004 (2016)
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Presentation Causal Inference Methods for Evaluating Policies to Reduce Air Pollution from Power Plants, Corwin Zigler, presented at Emory University and Brown University. R835872C004 (2016)
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Presentation Causal Inference Methods for Estimating Health Impacts of Environmental Policies, Francesca Dominici, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. R835872C004 (2016)
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Presentation Evaluating Power Plant Regulatory Policies:Bipartite Causal Inference with Interference, Corwin Zigler, presented at the Atlantic Causal Inference Conference and the Joint Statistical Meetings. R835872C004 (2016)
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Presentation Demystifying Causal Inference in Air Pollution Epidemiology, Francesca Dominici and Corwin Zigler, Workshop for the Health Effects Institute Annual Conference. R835872C004 (2016)
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Presentation Causal Inference for Evaluating National or Regional Air Quality Interventions, Corwin Zigler, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. R835872C004 (2016)
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