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Defining and characterizing Aflatoxin contamination risk areas for corn in Georgia, USA: Adjusting for collinearity and spatial correlation

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dc.creator Yoo, EunHye
dc.creator Kerry, Ruth
dc.creator Ingram, Ben
dc.creator Ortiz, Brenda
dc.creator Scully, Brian
dc.date 2018-07-06T08:39:40Z
dc.date 2018-07-06T08:39:40Z
dc.date 2018-07-02
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-25T16:37:00Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-25T16:37:00Z
dc.identifier Yoo E, Kerry R, Ingram B, Ortiz B, Scully B, Defining and characterizing Aflatoxin contamination risk areas for corn in Georgia, USA: Adjusting for collinearity and spatial correlation, Spatial Statistics, Volume 28, Issue December, 2018, pp. 84-104
dc.identifier 2211-6753
dc.identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2018.06.003
dc.identifier http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13324
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182182
dc.description Aflatoxin is a carcinogenic toxin to humans and animals produced by mold fungi in staple crops. Surveys of Aflatoxin are expensive, and the results are usually not available for implementing within season mitigation strategies. Identification of high and low risk areas and years is essential to reduce the number of samples analyzed for Aflatoxin concentration. Previously a risk factors approach was developed to determine county level Aflatoxin contamination risk in southern Georgia, but Aflatoxin concentrations and risk factor data were not analyzed simultaneously and all risk factors had equal weight which is unrealistic. In the current paper we propose a regression approach to overcome these problems. Spatial Poisson profile regression identified clusters of counties which have similar Aflatoxin risk and risk factor profiles, whilst explicitly taking into account multicollinearity in the risk factor data and spatial autocorrelation in the Aflatoxin data. This approach allows examination of the utility of different highly correlated variables including remotely sensed data that could give information at the sub-county level. The results identify plausible clusters compared to previous work but also give the relative importance of the risk factors associated with those clusters. The approach also helps show that some factors like well-drained soil behave differently from expectations and irrigation data is not useful.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Spatial autocorrelation
dc.subject Profile regression
dc.subject Aflatoxin contamination risk
dc.subject Risk factors
dc.subject Multicolinearity
dc.title Defining and characterizing Aflatoxin contamination risk areas for corn in Georgia, USA: Adjusting for collinearity and spatial correlation
dc.type Article


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