Title
Preprocessing alternatives for compositional data related to water, sanitation and hygiene
Date Issued
15 November 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Pérez-Foguet A.
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 6.1 and 6.2 measure the progress of urban and rural populations in their access to different levels of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, based on multiple sources of information. Service levels add up to 100%; therefore, they are compositional data (CoDa). Despite evidence of zero value, missing data and outliers in the sources of information, the treatment of these irregularities with different statistical techniques has not yet been analyzed for CoDa in the WASH sector. Thus, the results may present biased estimates, and the decisions based on these results will not necessarily be appropriate. In this article, we therefore: i) evaluate methodological imputation alternatives that address the problem of having either zero values or missing values, or both simultaneously; and ii) propose the need to complement the point-to-point identification of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) with other robust alternatives, to deal with outliers depending on the number of data points. These suggestions have been considered here using statistics for CoDa with isometric log-ratio (ilr) transformation. A selection of illustrative cases is presented to compare performance of different alternatives.
Volume
743
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias sociales
Estadísticas, Probabilidad
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85087587757
PubMed ID
Source
Science of the Total Environment
Resource of which it is part
Science of the Total Environment
ISSN of the container
00489697
Source funding
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
Sponsor(s)
This research was developed within the framework of a grant from the Peruvian government (Reference PRONABEC-President of the Republic Scholarship), through a full scholarship awarded to Alejandro Quispe Coica, and was partially funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain (Ref: RTI2018-095518-B-C22 ) and by the Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca de la Generalitat de Catalunya (Ref. 2017 SGR 1496 ).
This research was developed within the framework of a grant from the Peruvian government (Reference PRONABEC-President of the Republic Scholarship), through a full scholarship awarded to Alejandro Quispe Coica, and was partially funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain (Ref: RTI2018-095518-B-C22) and by the Ag?ncia de Gesti? d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca de la Generalitat de Catalunya (Ref. 2017 SGR 1496).
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