Journal: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Article Title: Relation between temperature and suicide mortality in Japan in the presence of other confounding factors using time-series analysis with a semiparametric approach

doi: 10.1007/s12199-010-0163-0

Figure Lengend Snippet: Basic residual plots for checking the generalized additive model (GAM) model fitting process (Kanto region). The upper left normal (Q-Q) plot is very close to a straight line, suggesting reasonable distributional assumption. The upper right plot suggests that variance is approximately constant as the mean increases. The histogram of residuals at the lower left appears consistent with normality. The lower right plot of response against fitted values shows a positive linear relation with a good deal of scatter: nothing problematic. Resids. residuals, pred. predictor, Q-Q Quantiles-Quantiles

Article Snippet: Basic model checking plots for the temperature–mortality model showed nothing problematic in the fitting of the relation (Fig. ). fig ft0 fig mode=article f1 fig/graphic|fig/alternatives/graphic mode="anchored" m1 Open in a separate window Fig. 2 caption a7 Basic residual plots for checking the generalized additive model (GAM) model fitting process (Kanto region).

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