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Sci Total Environ


Title:Identification and influence of spatio-temporal outliers in urban air quality measurements
Author(s):O'Leary B; Reiners JJ; Xu X; Lemke LD;
Address:"Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA. University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA. Electronic address: LDLemke@wayne.edu"
Journal Title:Sci Total Environ
Year:2016
Volume:20160820
Issue:
Page Number:55 - 65
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.08.031
ISSN/ISBN:1879-1026 (Electronic) 0048-9697 (Linking)
Abstract:"Forty eight potential outliers in air pollution measurements taken simultaneously in Detroit, Michigan, USA and Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 2008 and 2009 were identified using four independent methods: box plots, variogram clouds, difference maps, and the Local Moran's I statistic. These methods were subsequently used in combination to reduce and select a final set of 13 outliers for nitrogen dioxide (NO(2)), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), total benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, and xylene (BTEX), and particulate matter in two size fractions (PM(2.5) and PM(10)). The selected outliers were excluded from the measurement datasets and used to revise air pollution models. In addition, a set of temporally-scaled air pollution models was generated using time series measurements from community air quality monitors, with and without the selected outliers. The influence of outlier exclusion on associations with asthma exacerbation rates aggregated at a postal zone scale in both cities was evaluated. Results demonstrate that the inclusion or exclusion of outliers influences the strength of observed associations between intraurban air quality and asthma exacerbation in both cities. The box plot, variogram cloud, and difference map methods largely determined the final list of outliers, due to the high degree of conformity among their results. The Moran's I approach was not useful for outlier identification in the datasets studied. Removing outliers changed the spatial distribution of modeled concentration values and derivative exposure estimates averaged over postal zones. Overall, associations between air pollution and acute asthma exacerbation rates were weaker with outliers removed, but improved with the addition of temporal information. Decreases in statistically significant associations between air pollution and asthma resulted, in part, from smaller pollutant concentration ranges used for linear regression. Nevertheless, the practice of identifying outliers through congruence among multiple methods strengthens confidence in the analysis of outlier presence and influence in environmental datasets"
Keywords:"Air Pollutants/*analysis Air Pollution/*analysis Asthma/epidemiology Datasets as Topic Environmental Monitoring/*methods/statistics & numerical data Michigan *Models, Theoretical Ontario Particle Size Particulate Matter/*analysis Seasons Spatio-Temporal A;"
Notes:"MedlineO'Leary, Brendan Reiners, John J Jr Xu, Xiaohong Lemke, Lawrence D eng Netherlands 2016/08/24 Sci Total Environ. 2016 Dec 15; 573:55-65. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.08.031. Epub 2016 Aug 20"

 
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