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Mapping Human Vulnerability to Extreme Heat: A Critical Assessment of Heat Vulnerability Indices Created Using Principal Components Analysis
BACKGROUND: Extreme heat poses current and future risks to human health. Heat vulnerability indices (HVIs), commonly developed using principal components analysis (PCA), are mapped to identify populations vulnerable to extreme heat. Few studies critically assess implications of analytic choices made...
Autores principales: | Conlon, Kathryn C., Mallen, Evan, Gronlund, Carina J., Berrocal, Veronica J., Larsen, Larissa, O’Neill, Marie S. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Environmental Health Perspectives
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7466325/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32875815 http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP4030 |
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