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Applying multiple testing procedures to detect change in East African vegetation

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

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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.

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Source
Ann. Appl. Stat., Volume 8, Number 1 (2014), 286-308.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 8 April 2014

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1396966287

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/13-AOAS686

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3191991

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
06302236

Keywords
False discovery rate directional false discovery rate NDVI East Africa vegetation

Citation

Clements, Nicolle; Sarkar, Sanat K.; Zhao, Zhigen; Kim, Dong-Yun. Applying multiple testing procedures to detect change in East African vegetation. Ann. Appl. Stat. 8 (2014), no. 1, 286--308. doi:10.1214/13-AOAS686. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1396966287


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