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Air pollution epidemiology: A simplified Generalized Linear Model approach optimized by bio-inspired metaheuristics

2020; Elsevier BV; Volume: 191; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.envres.2020.110106

1096-0953

Jônatas Trabuco Belotti, Diego Solak Castanho, Lilian N. Araujo, Lucas V. da Silva, Thiago Antonini Alves, Yara S. Tadano, Sérgio Luiz Stevan, Fernanda Cristina Corrêa, Hugo Valadares Siqueira,

COVID-19 impact on air quality

Studies in air pollution epidemiology are of paramount importance in diagnosing and improve life quality. To explore new methods or modify existing ones is critical to obtain better results. Most air pollution epidemiology studies use the Generalized Linear Model, especially the default version of R, Splus, SAS, and Stata softwares, which use maximum likelihood estimators in parameter optimization. Also, a smooth time function (usually spline) is generally used as a pre-processing step to consider seasonal and long-term tendencies. This investigation introduces a new approach to GLM, proposing the estimation of the free coefficients through bio-inspired metaheuristics - Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic Algorithms, and Differential Evolution, as well as the replacement of the spline function by a simple normalization procedure. The considered case studies comprise three important cities of São Paulo state, Brazil with distinct characteristics: São Paulo, Campinas, and Cubatão. We considered the impact of particles with an aerodynamic diameter less than 10 μm (PM10), ambient temperature, and relative humidity in the number of hospital admissions for respiratory diseases (ICD-10, J00 to J99). The results showed that the new approach (especially PSO) brings performance gains compared to the default version of statistical software like R.