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Hernandez WCorresponding AuthorArques-Orobon FjAuthorGonzalez-Posadas VAuthorJiménez-Martín JlAuthorStatistical Analysis of the Impact of COVID-19 on PM2.5 Concentrations in Downtown Quito during the Lockdowns in 2020
Publicated to:Sensors. 22 (22): 8985- - 2022-01-01 22(22), DOI: 10.3390/s22228985
Authors: Hernandez W; Arqués-Orobón FJ; González-Posadas V; Jiménez-Martín JL; Rosero-Montalvo PD
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Abstract
In this paper, a comparative analysis between the PM (Formula presented.) concentration in downtown Quito, Ecuador, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the previous five years (from 2015 to 2019) was carried out. Here, in order to fill in the missing data and achieve homogeneity, eight datasets were constructed, and 35 different estimates were used together with six interpolation methods to put in the estimated value of the missing data. Additionally, the quality of the estimations was verified by using the sum of squared residuals and the following correlation coefficients: Pearson’s r, Kendall’s (Formula presented.), and Spearman’s (Formula presented.). Next, feature vectors were constructed from the data under study using the wavelet transform, and the differences between feature vectors were studied by using principal component analysis and multidimensional scaling. Finally, a robust method to impute missing data in time series and characterize objects is presented. This method was used to support the hypothesis that there were significant differences between the PM (Formula presented.) concentration in downtown Quito in 2020 and 2015–2019.
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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel
The work has been published in the journal Sensors due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Analytical Chemistry.
Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.
Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-07-13:
- Scopus: 1
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors
This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Denmark; Ecuador.
There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (HERNANDEZ PERDOMO, WILMAR) .
the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been HERNANDEZ PERDOMO, WILMAR.