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This study reveals that incorporating prior knowledge improves the estimation of minimum mortality temperature (MMT) and its associated confidence intervals. Ignoring MMT uncertainty can lead to inaccurate relative risk (RR) calculations.

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  • Environmental Health
  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • The relationship between temperature and mortality is nonlinear, with minimum mortality temperature (MMT) being a key metric.
  • Current methods for estimating MMT and its confidence intervals have limitations and their statistical properties are not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the statistical properties of existing MMT estimation methods.
  • To propose and evaluate an alternative approach for MMT estimation, particularly when prior knowledge is available.
  • To investigate the impact of MMT uncertainty on cold- and heat-related relative risk (RR) estimations.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed statistical properties of existing MMT estimation methods across various temperature-mortality associations.
  • Developed and compared an alternative MMT estimation approach (Empirical2) against previous methods (Argmin2, Empirical1) using simulation studies and real-world data.
  • Examined the influence of MMT uncertainty on RR calculations.

Main Results:

  • The standard point estimation method (Argmin2) can introduce bias and increase mean squared error.
  • The approximate bootstrap confidence interval (Empirical1) provides adequate coverage but can be excessively wide.
  • The alternative approach (Empirical2), utilizing prior knowledge, reduces bias and mean squared error for point estimates and provides narrower, accurate confidence intervals.

Conclusions:

  • Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate that incorporating prior knowledge into MMT estimation (point and interval) enhances accuracy and reduces uncertainty.
  • Uncertainty in MMT significantly impacts RR estimations; neglecting this uncertainty can result in biased point estimates and inadequate interval coverage for MMT-referenced RRs.