An Outlier Detection Study of Ozone in Kolkata India by the Classical Statistics, Statistical Process Control and Functional Data Analysis

Mohammad Ahmad, Weihu Cheng and Xu Zhao ()
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Mohammad Ahmad: Faculty of Science, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Weihu Cheng: Faculty of Science, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Xu Zhao: Faculty of Science, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 17, 1-13

Abstract: Air pollution is prevalent throughout the entire world due to the release of various gases such as NO x , PM, SO 2 , tropospheric ozone (O 3 ), etc. Ground-stage ozone is the predominant issue in smog and is the product of the interplay between sunlight and emissions. The destructive impact on the health of the populace might also still occur in cities with noticeably clean air and where ozone levels hardly ever exceed safe limits. Therefore, the findings of small variations in air quality and the technique of regulating air contamination are thought-provoking. The study employs various techniques to effectively observe and assess strategies for detecting and eliminating outliers in ozone emissions from pollution episodes. This technique helps to describe the sources and exceedance values and enhance the value of monitoring the data. In this study, the data have some missing observations. The method of imputation, the classical statistical technique, the statistical process control (SPC) technique, functional data analysis (FDA), and functional process control help to fill in the data and detect outliers, trend deviations, and changes in ozone concentration at ground level. A comparison study is carried out using these three techniques: classical analysis, SPC, and FDA, and the results show how the statistical process control and functional data methods performed better than the classical technique for the detection of outliers and also in what way this methodology can enable an additional, comprehensive method of defining air pollution control measures and water pollution control measures.

Keywords: statistical process control; functional data analysis; outlier; air pollution; imputation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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