TY - JOUR
T1 - A permutation approach to the analysis of spatio-temporal geochemical data in the presence of heteroscedasticity
AU - Rmalova, Veronika
AU - Menafoglio, Alessandra
AU - Pini, Alessia
AU - Pechanec, Vilem
AU - Fiserova, Eva
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This paper proposes a novel nonparametric approach to model and reveal differences in the geochemical properties of the soil, when these are described by space-time measurements collected in a spatial region naturally divided into two parts. The investigation is motivated by a real study on a spacetime geochemical dataset, consisting of measurements of potassium chloride pH, water pH, and percentage of organic carbon collected during the growing season in the agricultural and forest areas of a site near Brno (Czech Republic). These data are here modelled as spatially distributed functions of time. A permutation approach is introduced to test for the eect of covariates in a spatial functional regression model with heteroscedastic residuals. In this context, the proposed method accounts for the heterogeneous spatial structure of the data by grounding on a permutation scheme for estimated residuals of the functional model. Here, a weighted least-squares model is fi tted to the observations, leading to asymptotically exchangeable, and thus, permutable residuals. An extensive simulation study shows that the proposed testing procedure outperforms the competitor approaches that neglect the spatial structure, both in terms of power and size. The results of modelling and testing on the case study are shown and discussed.
AB - This paper proposes a novel nonparametric approach to model and reveal differences in the geochemical properties of the soil, when these are described by space-time measurements collected in a spatial region naturally divided into two parts. The investigation is motivated by a real study on a spacetime geochemical dataset, consisting of measurements of potassium chloride pH, water pH, and percentage of organic carbon collected during the growing season in the agricultural and forest areas of a site near Brno (Czech Republic). These data are here modelled as spatially distributed functions of time. A permutation approach is introduced to test for the eect of covariates in a spatial functional regression model with heteroscedastic residuals. In this context, the proposed method accounts for the heterogeneous spatial structure of the data by grounding on a permutation scheme for estimated residuals of the functional model. Here, a weighted least-squares model is fi tted to the observations, leading to asymptotically exchangeable, and thus, permutable residuals. An extensive simulation study shows that the proposed testing procedure outperforms the competitor approaches that neglect the spatial structure, both in terms of power and size. The results of modelling and testing on the case study are shown and discussed.
KW - functional data, Geostatistics, Nonparametric inference, Functional regression, Edge effect on soil
KW - functional data, Geostatistics, Nonparametric inference, Functional regression, Edge effect on soil
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/143635
M3 - Article
SN - 1099-095X
SP - N/A-N/A
JO - Environmetrics
JF - Environmetrics
ER -