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{"title":"Catalysing virtual collaboration: The experience of the remote TIES working groups","authors":"M. Meis,&nbsp;M. Pirani,&nbsp;C. Euan,&nbsp;S. Castruccio,&nbsp;S. Simmons,&nbsp;J.R. Stroud,&nbsp;M. Blangiardo,&nbsp;C.K. Wikle,&nbsp;M. Wheeler,&nbsp;E. Naumova,&nbsp;L. Bravo,&nbsp;C. Miller,&nbsp;Y. Gel","doi":"10.1002/env.2855","DOIUrl":"10.1002/env.2855","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of collaboration and scientific exchange between members of the scientific community was enhanced by technology. Virtual meetings and work platforms have become common resources to continue generating research, partially replacing instances of joint in-person work before, during or after a conference. The idea of teleworking played a fundamental role in remote collaboration groups within The International Statistical Society (TIES), a community of interdisciplinary scientists such as statisticians, mathematicians, meteorologists, and biologists, among others working on quantitative methods to enhance solutions to environmental problems. In 2021 the Society launched three working groups with the aim of improving networking across the Society's members and develop creative collaboration, while advancing statistical and computational methods motivated by real-world driven applications in environmental research. Here, we provide insights from this virtual collaborative initiative.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"35 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141107983","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":"Bayesian benchmark dose risk assessment with mixed-factor quantal data","authors":"Mirjana Glisovic-Bensa,&nbsp;Walter W. Piegorsch,&nbsp;Edward J. Bedrick","doi":"10.1002/env.2854","DOIUrl":"10.1002/env.2854","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Benchmark analysis is a general risk estimation strategy for identifying the benchmark dose (BMD) past which the risk of exhibiting an adverse environmental response exceeds a fixed, target value of benchmark response. Estimation of BMD and of its lower confidence limit (BMDL) is well understood for the case of an adverse response to a single stimulus. In many environmental settings, however, one or more additional, secondary, qualitative factor(s) may collude to affect the adverse outcome, such that the risk changes with differential levels of the secondary factor. Bayesian methods for estimation of the BMD and BMDL have grown in popularity, and a large variety of candidate dose–response models is available for applying these methods. This article applies Bayesian strategies to a mixed-factor setting with a secondary qualitative factor possessing two levels to derive two-factor Bayesian BMDs and BMDLs. We present reparameterized dose–response models that allow for explicit use of prior information on the target parameter of interest, the BMD. We also enhance our Bayesian estimation technique for BMD analysis by applying Bayesian model averaging to produce the BMDs and BMDLs, overcoming associated questions of model adequacy when multimodel uncertainty is present. An example from environmental carcinogenicity testing illustrates the calculations.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"35 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141113061","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":"High dimensional variable selection through group Lasso for multiple function-on-function linear regression: A case study in PM10 monitoring","authors":"Adelia Evangelista,&nbsp;Christian Acal,&nbsp;Ana M. Aguilera,&nbsp;Annalina Sarra,&nbsp;Tonio Di Battista,&nbsp;Sergio Palermi","doi":"10.1002/env.2852","DOIUrl":"10.1002/env.2852","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Analyzing the effect of chemical and local meteorological variables over the behaviour in <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mtext>PM</mtext>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mn>10</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{PM}}_{10} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> concentrations in the Abruzzo region (Italy), with the objective of forecasting and controlling air quality, motivates the current work. Given that the available data are curves that represent the day-to-day variations, a multiple function-on-function linear regression (MFFLR) model is considered. By assuming the Karhunen-Loève expansion, MFFLR model can be reduced to a classical linear regression model for each principal component of the functional response in terms of all principal components (PCs) of the functional predictors. In this sense, a regularization approach for functional principal component regression based on the merge of functional data analysis with group Lasso is proposed. This novel methodology allows to estimate the model and, simultaneously, select those relevant functional predictors with the functional response, where each functional independent variable is represented by a group of input variables derived by the PCs.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140834432","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":"A zero-inflated Poisson spatial model with misreporting for wildfire occurrences in southern Italian municipalities","authors":"Serena Arima,&nbsp;Crescenza Calculli,&nbsp;Alessio Pollice","doi":"10.1002/env.2853","DOIUrl":"10.1002/env.2853","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We propose a Poisson model for zero-inflated spatial counts contaminated by measurement error: we accommodate the excess of zeroes in the counts, consider the possible under/over reporting of the response and account for the neighboring structure of spatial areal units. Bayesian inferences are provided by MCMC implementation through the R package NIMBLE. To evaluate the model performance, a simulation study is carried out under configurations that allow for structured and unstructured spatial random effects. The proposed model is applied to investigate the distribution of the counts of wildfire occurrences in the municipal areas of two neighboring Italian regions for the summer season 2021. Fire counts are obtained by processing MODIS satellite data, while several socio-economic and environmental-driven potential risk factors are also considered in the model formulation. Data from multiple sources with different spatial support are processed in order to comply with the municipal units. Results suggest the appropriateness of the approach and provide some insights on the features of wildfire occurrences.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140834422","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":"Pointwise data depth for univariate and multivariate functional outlier detection","authors":"Cristian F. Jiménez-Varón,&nbsp;Fouzi Harrou,&nbsp;Ying Sun","doi":"10.1002/env.2851","DOIUrl":"10.1002/env.2851","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Data depth is an efficient tool for robustly summarizing the distribution of functional data and detecting potential magnitude and shape outliers. Commonly used functional data depth notions, such as the modified band depth and extremal depth, are estimated from pointwise depth for each observed functional observation. However, these techniques require calculating one single depth value for each functional observation, which may not be sufficient to characterize the distribution of the functional data and detect potential outliers. This article presents an innovative approach to make the best use of pointwise depth. We propose using the pointwise depth distribution for magnitude outlier visualization and the correlation between pairwise depth for shape outlier detection. Furthermore, a bootstrap-based testing procedure has been introduced for the correlation to test whether there is any shape outlier. The proposed univariate methods are then extended to bivariate functional data. The performance of the proposed methods is examined and compared to conventional outlier detection techniques by intensive simulation studies. In addition, the developed methods are applied to simulated solar energy datasets from a photovoltaic system. Results revealed that the proposed method offers superior detection performance over conventional techniques. These findings will benefit engineers and practitioners in monitoring photovoltaic systems by detecting unnoticed anomalies and outliers.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"35 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140626408","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":"Scanner\u0000 : Simultaneously temporal trend and spatial cluster detection for spatial-temporal data","authors":"Xin Wang,&nbsp;Xin Zhang","doi":"10.1002/env.2849","DOIUrl":"10.1002/env.2849","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Identifying the underlying trajectory pattern in the spatial-temporal data analysis is a fundamental but challenging task. In this paper, we study the problem of simultaneously identifying temporal trends and spatial clusters of spatial-temporal trajectories. To achieve this goal, we propose a novel method named spatial clustered and sparse nonparametric regression (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>Scanner</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ mathsf{Scanner} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>). Our method leverages the B-spline model to fit the temporal data and penalty terms on spline coefficients to reveal the underlying spatial-temporal patterns. In particular, our method estimates the model by solving a doubly-penalized least square problem, in which we use a group sparse penalty for trend detection and a spanning tree-based fusion penalty for spatial cluster recovery. We also develop an algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm to efficiently minimize the penalized least square loss. The statistical consistency properties of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>Scanner</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ mathsf{Scanner} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> estimator are established in our work. In the end, we conduct thorough numerical experiments to verify our theoretical findings and validate that our method outperforms the existing competitive approaches.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"35 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140615343","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":"Contamination severity index: An analysis of Bangladesh groundwater arsenic","authors":"Yogendra P. Chaubey,&nbsp;Qi Zhang","doi":"10.1002/env.2850","DOIUrl":"10.1002/env.2850","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article deals with the measurement of groundwater arsenic (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>A</mi>\u0000 <mi>s</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ As $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>) contamination. The focus is on using a proper index for the severity of contamination, rather than just using the proportion of observations above a threshold level. We specifically focus on the contamination severity index (CSI) proposed by Sen (2016. <i>Sankhya B</i>, 78B(2), 341–361.). An alternative estimator in contrast to the one given by Sen (2016. <i>Sankhya B</i>, 78B(2), 341–361.) is used here which is useful for a small number of observations. The data used is that collected by the British Geological Society and the Bangladesh Department of Public Health Engineering during 1997–2001. Their analysis was based on the simple proportion of the observations above a threshold level, whereas the CSI measure adequately takes into account the severity of the observations. It is emphasized in this article that the comparison of areas with average arsenic (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>A</mi>\u0000 <mi>s</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ As $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>) levels to determine arsenic severity is not appropriate in general due to a large variation in the sample values due to the depth of wells. However, an alternative to the CSI proposed in Sen (2016. <i>Sankhya B</i>, 78B(2), 341–361.) has been given in this article that takes into account the depth of wells corresponding to the <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>A</mi>\u0000 <mi>s</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ As $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> samples. This article also uses the bootstrap methodology in assessing the bias and standard errors of the estimators, and the corresponding <i>bias-corrected and accelerated</i> confidence intervals.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"35 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/env.2850","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140615298","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":"Automatic deforestation detectors based on frequentist statistics and their extensions for other spatial objects","authors":"Jesper Muren,&nbsp;Vilhelm Niklasson,&nbsp;Dmitry Otryakhin,&nbsp;Maxim Romashin","doi":"10.1002/env.2848","DOIUrl":"10.1002/env.2848","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article is devoted to the problem of detection of forest and nonforest areas on Earth images. We propose two statistical methods to tackle this problem: one based on multiple hypothesis testing with parametric distribution families, another one—on nonparametric tests. The parametric approach is novel in the literature and relevant to a larger class of problems—detection of natural objects, as well as anomaly detection. We develop mathematical background for each of the two methods, build self-sufficient detection algorithms using them and discuss practical aspects of their implementation. We also compare our algorithms with each other and with those from standard machine learning using satellite data.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"35 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/env.2848","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140599481","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 and selection for spatial zero-inflated count models","authors":"Chung-Wei Shen,&nbsp;Chun-Shu Chen","doi":"10.1002/env.2847","DOIUrl":"10.1002/env.2847","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The count data arise in many scientific areas. Our concerns here focus on spatial count responses with an excessive number of zeros and a set of available covariates. Estimating model parameters and selecting important covariates for spatial zero-inflated count models are both essential. Importantly, to alleviate deviations from model assumptions, we propose a spatial zero-inflated Poisson-like methodology to model this type of data, which relies only on assumptions for the first two moments of spatial count responses. We then design an effective iterative estimation procedure between the generalized estimating equation and the weighted least squares method to respectively estimate the regression coefficients and the variogram of the data model. Moreover, the stabilization of estimators is evaluated via a block jackknife technique. Furthermore, a distribution-free model selection criterion based on an estimate of the mean squared error of the estimated mean structure is proposed to select the best subset of covariates. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is demonstrated by simulation studies under various scenarios, and a real dataset regarding the number of maternal deaths in Mozambique is analyzed for illustration.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"35 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140599396","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":"Testing for galactic cosmic ray warming hypothesis using the notion of block-exogeneity","authors":"Umberto Triacca","doi":"10.1002/env.2846","DOIUrl":"10.1002/env.2846","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we consider the notion of block-exogeneity and establish a characterization of it. We use this characterization to propose a procedure to test for block-exogeneity in a trivariate system. The proposed procedure has been applied to test the so-called galactic cosmic ray warming hypothesis. The galactic cosmic ray warming hypothesis suggests the existence of an indirect solar influence on Earth's climate. Our results seem to imply that this hypothesis does not hold. In particular, we find that the global temperature is block-exogenous with respect to both sunspot numbers (a measure of the solar activity) and galactic cosmic rays. This implies that the supposed indirect causal link from solar activity to temperature (through cosmic rays), postulated by the galactic cosmic ray warming hypothesis, does not appear to exist.</p>","PeriodicalId":50512,"journal":{"name":"Environmetrics","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140361323","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}