Date of Award
8-2018
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Mathematical Sciences
Committee Member
Dr. William Bridges, Committee Chair
Committee Member
Dr. Brook Russell, Co-Chair
Committee Member
Dr. Colin Gallagher
Committee Member
Dr. Patrick Gerard
Abstract
In this dissertation, our objective is to determine the impact of air temperature and rainfall on soil temperature with proximity to sidewalk. First, we concerned the many missing values in our data set. Some traditional and commonly used methods of imputation are introduced and then applied to the data set. Then, we concerned the relationships among the soil temperature, air temperature, and rainfall data. Since these data are time series, Granger Causality is used to estimate the relationships. Lastly, we focused on the analysis of the actual study design. The four distances are considered as treatments and the three locations were considered blocks resulting in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD). Results from the time series analyses were incorporated into the study design to determine the effect of sidewalk on soil temperature.
Recommended Citation
Bao, Yinggu, "Analysis of Time-Series Data Embedded in an Experiment Design" (2018). All Dissertations. 2230.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/2230