Importance of applying Mixed Generalized Additive Model (MGAM) as a method for assessing the environmental health impacts: Ambient temperature and Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), among elderly in Shanghai, China

• Xiaoqian Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoqian Huang, Weiping Ma

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, NHC Key Laboratory of Health Technology Assessment, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Weiping Ma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoqian Huang, Weiping Ma

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America, Icahn Institute of Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Chikin Law,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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• Jianfeng Luo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jfluo@shmu.edu.cn

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, NHC Key Laboratory of Health Technology Assessment, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9833-0416

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• Naiqing Zhao

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, NHC Key Laboratory of Health Technology Assessment, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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