Bayesian nonparametric clustering for spatio-temporal data, with an application to air pollution

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Hauptverfasser: Aiello, Luca, Argiento, Raffaele, Legramanti, Sirio, Paci, Lucia
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author Aiello, Luca
Argiento, Raffaele
Legramanti, Sirio
Paci, Lucia
author_facet Aiello, Luca
Argiento, Raffaele
Legramanti, Sirio
Paci, Lucia
contents Air pollution is a major global health hazard, with fine particulate matter (PM10) linked to severe respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Hence, analyzing and clustering spatio-temporal air quality data is crucial for understanding pollution dynamics and guiding policy interventions. This work provides a review of Bayesian nonparametric clustering methods, with a particular focus on their application to spatio-temporal data, which are ubiquitous in environmental sciences. We first introduce key modeling approaches for point-referenced spatio-temporal data, highlighting their flexibility in capturing complex spatial and temporal dependencies. We then review recent advancements in Bayesian clustering, focusing on spatial product partition models, which incorporate spatial structure into the clustering process. We illustrate the proposed methods on PM10 monitoring data from Northern Italy, demonstrating their ability to identify meaningful pollution patterns. This review highlights the potential of Bayesian nonparametric methods for environmental risk assessment and offers insights into future research directions in spatio-temporal clustering for public health and environmental science.
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spellingShingle Bayesian nonparametric clustering for spatio-temporal data, with an application to air pollution
Aiello, Luca
Argiento, Raffaele
Legramanti, Sirio
Paci, Lucia
Methodology
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Air pollution is a major global health hazard, with fine particulate matter (PM10) linked to severe respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Hence, analyzing and clustering spatio-temporal air quality data is crucial for understanding pollution dynamics and guiding policy interventions. This work provides a review of Bayesian nonparametric clustering methods, with a particular focus on their application to spatio-temporal data, which are ubiquitous in environmental sciences. We first introduce key modeling approaches for point-referenced spatio-temporal data, highlighting their flexibility in capturing complex spatial and temporal dependencies. We then review recent advancements in Bayesian clustering, focusing on spatial product partition models, which incorporate spatial structure into the clustering process. We illustrate the proposed methods on PM10 monitoring data from Northern Italy, demonstrating their ability to identify meaningful pollution patterns. This review highlights the potential of Bayesian nonparametric methods for environmental risk assessment and offers insights into future research directions in spatio-temporal clustering for public health and environmental science.
title Bayesian nonparametric clustering for spatio-temporal data, with an application to air pollution
topic Methodology
Applications
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24694