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Table 5 Summary of air pollution source apportionment studies using data mining techniques

From: A systematic review of data mining and machine learning for air pollution epidemiology

Author

Year

Sub-field

Environmental agent of interest

Data mining techniques

Objective

Chen et al. [22]

2010

Outdoor air pollution

Inorganic acids & basic air pollutants

Hierarchical Clustering

Explore relationship between climate and air pollutants

Singh et al. [24]

2013

Outdoor air pollution

AQI

PCA, SVM, DT

Predicting air quality and identifying air pollution sources.

Fernández- Camacho et al. [51]

2015

Urban air and noise pollution by traffic

NOx, O3, SO2, Black Carbon

Fuzzy Clustering

Find the relationship of noise to the traffic emission

Chen et al. [23]

2015

Outdoor air pollution

Multiple air pollutants

Clustering

Source apportionment for air pollutants

Li et al. [45]

2017

Outdoor air pollution

PM

Trajectory clustering

Use clustering to understand how seasonality and meteorology effects pollution sources for Beijing

  1. Chemical abbreviations: AQI air quality index, NOx nitrogen oxides, O3 ozone, SO2 sulfur dioxide, PM particulate matter. Data mining abbreviations: PCA principle component analysis, SVM support vector machine and DT decision tree