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{"title":"Semiparametric Approaches for Mitigating Spatial Confounding in Large Environmental Epidemiology Cohort Studies","authors":"Maddie J. Rainey,&nbsp;Kayleigh P. Keller","doi":"10.1002/env.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/env.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Epidemiological analyses of environmental risk factors often include spatially varying exposures and outcomes. Unmeasured, spatially varying factors can lead to confounding bias in estimates of associations with adverse health outcomes. Several approaches for mitigating this bias have been developed using semiparametric splines. These methods use thin plate regression splines to account for the spatial variation present in the analysis but differ in how to select the amount of spatial smoothing and in whether the exposure, the outcome, or both are smoothed. We directly compare current approaches based on information criteria and cross-validation metrics and additionally introduce a hybrid method to selection that combines features from multiple existing approaches. We compare these methods in a simulation study to make a recommendation for the best approach for different settings and demonstrate their use in a study of environmental exposures on birth weight in a Colorado cohort.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"36 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/env.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144705296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Partially Varying-Coefficient Model With Skew-T Random Errors for Environmental Data Modeling","authors":"Christian Caamaño-Carrillo,&nbsp;Germán Ibacache-Pulgar,&nbsp;Bladimir Morales","doi":"10.1002/env.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/env.70029","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Partially varying-coefficient models (PVCMs) are an important tool in the modeling of environmental, economic, biomedical and other data, which have a parametric and a nonparametric component in their formulation. In addition to presenting interaction of the unknown smooth functions, which makes the classic linear regression models more flexible, such that generalizes to generalized additive models (GAMs) and models with varying coefficients (VCMs), which usually have a Gaussian distribution. In many cases the data tend to be more complex in the sense that they can present high levels of skewness and kurtosis. This article extends the version Gaussian PVCMs, allowing errors to present asymmetry and heavy tails, increasing the flexibility of this type of models where the Gaussian version remains a special case within this extended version. Specifically, the EM algorithm was developed for the estimation of parameters and development of diagnostic analysis through local influence. To evaluate the efficiency of the estimation, a simulation study was carried out. Finally, the model was applied to the datasets of the National Air Quality Information System (SINCA) of Chile, specifically to data of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, considering as the study variable the particulate matter <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mtext>PM</mtext>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 <mo>.</mo>\u0000 <mn>5</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{PM}}_{2.5} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>, for the importance it represents in environmental pollution and population health issues.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"36 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144705297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Animal Trajectory Imputation and Uncertainty Quantification via Deep Learning","authors":"Kehui Yao,&nbsp;Ian P. McGahan,&nbsp;Jun Zhu,&nbsp;Daniel J. Storm,&nbsp;Daniel P. Walsh","doi":"10.1002/env.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/env.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Imputing missing data in animal trajectories is crucial for understanding animal movements during unobserved periods. However, the traditional methods, such as linear interpolation and the continuous-time correlated random walk model, are often inadequate to capture the complexity of animal movements. Here, we develop a deep learning approach to animal trajectory imputation by a conditional diffusion model. Unlike the traditional methods, our deep learning method uses observed data and external covariates to impute missing positions along an animal trajectory, capturing periodic patterns and the influence of covariates, which leads to more accurate imputations. In a case study of imputing deer trajectories, our method not only provides more accurate deterministic imputations than existing approaches but also achieves uncertainty quantification through probabilistic imputation.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"36 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/env.70027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Occupancy Modeling for Rare Species Using Large Datasets: A Subsampling Approach","authors":"Johanna de Haan-Ward,&nbsp;Simon J. Bonner,&nbsp;Douglas G. Woolford","doi":"10.1002/env.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/env.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Citizen science monitoring programs, such as the Breeding Bird Survey, provide a wealth of data for understanding species abundance and distribution. However, traditional approaches for occupancy modeling of rare species can be difficult to apply to large, imbalanced datasets. We propose a new method for occupancy modeling where the original dataset is subsampled seasonally, keeping all sites with at least one detection along with a random sample of sites with no detections. Occupancy models cannot be fit directly to these subsampled data because the assumption of binomial sampling no longer holds. However, we show that the occupancy probability is adjusted by an offset, meaning inference on the effects of predictors is still valid. We propose a method for model fitting via direct maximum likelihood and demonstrate via simulation that this leads to computational gains. We illustrate our method using data on Canada Warblers (<i>Cardellina canadensis</i>) from the Breeding Bird Survey in Ontario, Canada from 1997 to 2018, where 95% of sites have zero detections annually, demonstrating that we can accurately estimate the occupancy and detection parameters, including estimating the effects of habitat covariates, using just 10% of the original dataset.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"36 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/env.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144589960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Estimation of Impact Ranges for Functional Valued Predictors","authors":"Rory Samuels,&nbsp;Nimrod Carmon,&nbsp;Bledar Komoni,&nbsp;Jonathan Hobbs,&nbsp;Amy Braverman,&nbsp;Dean Young,&nbsp;Joon Jin Song","doi":"10.1002/env.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/env.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Spectroscopy plays a crucial role in various scientific and industrial applications, enabling the analysis of complex materials and their interactions with incident radiation. Hyperspectral remote sensing, also known as imaging spectroscopy, is essential for numerous Earth science applications, spanning multiple disciplines, including ecology, geology, and cryosphere research. With the abundance of current orbital imaging spectrometers, and with space agencies and commercial companies set to expand their use in the next few years, developing methodologies that maximize the utility of these data is crucial. Identifying the wavelength ranges of diagnostic absorption features in spectra is essential for understanding the relationship between spectral data and responses of interest. In this paper, we propose a statistical approach that utilizes Functional Partial Least Squares (FPLS) to model the spectral data as smooth functions and study their impact on the response variable along sub-intervals of the domain. To capture the localized relationships within specific sub-intervals, termed impact ranges, we present a novel two-stage estimation procedure to identify the midpoint and half-length of the impact ranges. Additionally, we introduce an algorithm for iteratively applying the proposed two-stage approach to estimate both the number and location of potential impact ranges. The proposed procedure is evaluated via Monte Carlo simulation and is applied to a real dataset of spectra to identify the location of the diagnostic absorption features for predicting calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) content in soil. Our methodology accurately estimates the number and location of impact ranges, corresponding to absorption features in spectral data.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"36 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Computational Benchmark Study in Spatio-Temporal Statistics With a Hands-On Guide to Optimise R","authors":"Lorenzo Tedesco,&nbsp;Jacopo Rodeschini,&nbsp;Philipp Otto","doi":"10.1002/env.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/env.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of the computational performance of <span>R</span>, <span>MATLAB</span>, <span>Python</span>, and <span>Julia</span> for spatial and spatio-temporal modelling, focusing on high-dimensional datasets typical in geospatial statistical analysis. We benchmark each language across key tasks, including matrix manipulations and transformations, iterative programming routines, and Input/Output processes, all of which are critical in environmetrics. The results demonstrate that <span>MATLAB</span> excels in matrix-based computations, while <span>Julia</span> consistently delivers competitive performance across a wide range of tasks, establishing itself as a robust, open-source alternative. <span>Python</span>, when combined with libraries like <span>NumPy</span>, shows strength in specific numerical operations, offering versatility for general-purpose programming. <span>R</span>, despite its slower default performance in raw computations, proves to be highly adaptable; by linking to optimized libraries like <span>OpenBLAS</span> or <span>MKL</span> and integrating <span>C++</span> with packages like <span>Rcpp</span>, <span>R</span> achieves significant performance gains, becoming competitive with the other languages. This study also provides practical guidance for researchers to optimize <span>R</span> for geospatial data processing, offering insights to support the selection of the most suitable language for specific modelling requirements.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"36 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/env.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144511146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does Wind Affect the Orientation of Vegetation Stripes? A Copula-Based Mixture Model for Axial and Circular Data","authors":"Marco Mingione,&nbsp;Francesco Lagona,&nbsp;Priyanka Nagar,&nbsp;Francois von Holtzhausen,&nbsp;Andriette Bekker,&nbsp;Janine Schoombie,&nbsp;Peter C. le Roux","doi":"10.1002/env.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/env.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Motivated by a case study of vegetation patterns, we introduce a mixture model with concomitant variables to examine the association between the orientation of vegetation stripes and wind direction. The proposal relies on a novel copula-based bivariate distribution for mixed axial and circular observations and provides a parsimonious and computationally tractable approach to examine the dependence of two environmental variables observed in a complex manifold. The findings suggest that dominant winds shape the orientation of vegetation stripes through a mechanism of neighboring plants providing wind shelter to downwind individuals.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"36 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144367408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Detecting Changes in Space-Varying Parameters of Local Poisson Point Processes","authors":"Nicoletta D'Angelo","doi":"10.1002/env.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/env.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent advances in local models for point processes have highlighted the need for flexible methodologies to account for the spatial heterogeneity of external covariates influencing process intensity. In this work, we introduce <i>tessellated spatial regression</i>, a novel framework that extends segmented regression models to spatial point processes, with the aim of detecting abrupt changes in the effect of external covariates on the process intensity. Our approach consists of two main steps. First, we apply a spatial segmentation algorithm to geographically weighted regression estimates, generating different tessellations that partition the study area into regions where model parameters can be assumed constant. Next, we fit log-linear Poisson models in which covariates interact with the tessellations, enabling region-specific parameter estimation and classical inferential procedures, such as hypothesis testing on regression coefficients. Unlike geographically weighted regression, our approach allows for discrete changes in regression coefficients, making it possible to capture abrupt spatial variations in the effect of real-valued spatial covariates. Furthermore, the method naturally addresses the problem of locating and quantifying the number of detected spatial changes. We validate our methodology through simulation studies and applications to two examples where a model with region-wise parameters seems appropriate and to an environmental dataset of earthquake occurrences in Greece.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"36 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/env.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144339318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Novel Approach for Hierarchical Family Selection of an Ambient Air Pollutant Mixture With Application to Childhood Asthma","authors":"Christoffer Sejling,&nbsp;Andreas Kryger Jensen,&nbsp;Jiawei Zhang,&nbsp;Steffen Loft,&nbsp;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen,&nbsp;Jørgen Brandt,&nbsp;Leslie Thomas Stayner,&nbsp;Marie Pedersen,&nbsp;Esben Budtz-Jørgensen","doi":"10.1002/env.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/env.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution has previously been associated with childhood asthma, but endeavors have focused on single and pairwise pollutant models. We introduce a novel framework for selection of effect drivers from an environmental mixture, which is based on an entropy rank agreement measure. We apply the method in a nationwide study, relating prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution to asthma incidence in Danish children aged 0–19 years that are born from 1998 to 2016. Also, we estimate effects through population-wide G-estimation contrasts. We conclude that being exposed to the observed levels of ambient air pollution in contrast to the hypothetical case of the minimum of the observed subject-specific exposure levels and the 2.5% quantile levels is associated with relative risk increases that exceed 30% and absolute risk differences that exceed 2 percentage points across Danish municipalities. For selection we discover that SO<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msubsup>\u0000 <mo> </mo>\u0000 <mn>4</mn>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 <mo>−</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </msubsup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {}_4^{2-} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> and primary organic aerosols appear the most important predictors of asthma amongst the included ambient air pollutants and that these are both associated with a risk increase. The developed methodology is a promising approach to handling an environmental mixture of exposures in statistical analyses, which allows for discovery of important drivers of associations.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"36 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/env.70020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stratified, Spatially Balanced Cluster Sampling for Cost-Efficient Environmental Surveys","authors":"Juha Heikkinen,&nbsp;Helena M. Henttonen,&nbsp;Matti Katila,&nbsp;Sakari Tuominen","doi":"10.1002/env.70019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/env.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Large-scale environmental surveys relying on intensive fieldwork are expensive, but survey sampling methodology offers several options to improve their cost-efficiency. For example, sites selected for field assessments can be arranged in clusters to reduce the time spent moving between the sites, and auxiliary data can be utilized to stratify the survey region and sample less important strata less densely. Geographically balanced and well-spread sampling can yield further improvements since the target variables of environmental surveys tend to be spatially autocorrelated. A combination of these ideas was illustrated and evaluated in the context of a national forest inventory, and alternative methods of spatially balanced sampling were compared. The main findings were that (i) both the local pivotal method and the generalized random-tessellation stratified design guaranteed a clearly better spatial regularity than systematic sampling when applied to fragmented regions resulting from stratification and (ii) they also ensured better global balance in unstratified sampling. In our case study, where stratification and sample allocation were based on high-quality auxiliary data, stratified sampling was clearly more efficient than unstratified for the primary survey target parameter. However, our results also illustrate that highly nonproportional sample allocation can be dangerous in a multi-purpose survey.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"36 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/env.70019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}