Applying multiple testing procedures to detect change in East African vegetation

DOI10.1214/13-AOAS686zbMATH Open1454.62320arXiv1405.0785OpenAlexW2077634267MaRDI QIDQ2453672FDOQ2453672

Authors: Nicolle Clements, Zhigen Zhao, Dong-Yun Kim, Sanat K. Sarkar 

Publication date: 10 June 2014

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The study of vegetation fluctuations gives valuable information toward effective land use and development. We consider this problem for the East African region based on the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) series from satellite remote sensing data collected between 1982 and 2006 over 8-kilometer grid points. We detect areas with significant increasing or decreasing monotonic vegetation changes using a multiple testing procedure controlling the mixed directional false discovery rate (mdFDR). Specifically, we use a three-stage directional Benjamini--Hochberg (BH) procedure with proven mdFDR control under independence and a suitable adaptive version of it. The performance of these procedures is studied through simulations before applying them to the vegetation data. Our analysis shows increasing vegetation in the Northern hemisphere as well as coastal Tanzania and generally decreasing Southern hemisphere vegetation trends, which are consistent with historical evidence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0785

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zbMATH Keywords

false discovery ratedirectional false discovery rateEast Africa vegetationNDVI

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Paired and multiple comparisons; multiple testing (62J15)

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