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Mr. SangWon Choi
Seoul National Univeristy

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0 Economic Analysis
0 climate change
0 Demographic and social composition of cities
0 Deep learning / big data
0 Econometrics, time-series and panel

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Journal article
Published: 26 March 2021 in Sustainability
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Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is one of the main air pollution problems that occur in major cities around the world. A country’s PM2.5 can be affected not only by country factors but also by the neighboring country’s air quality factors. Therefore, forecasting PM2.5 requires collecting data from outside the country as well as from within which is necessary for policies and plans. The data set of many variables with a relatively small number of observations can cause a dimensionality problem and limit the performance of the deep learning model. This study used daily data for five years in predicting PM2.5 concentrations in eight Korean cities through deep learning models. PM2.5 data of China were collected and used as input variables to solve the dimensionality problem using principal components analysis (PCA). The deep learning models used were a recurrent neural network (RNN), long short-term memory (LSTM), and bidirectional LSTM (BiLSTM). The performance of the models with and without PCA was compared using root-mean-square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE). As a result, the application of PCA in LSTM and BiLSTM, excluding the RNN, showed better performance: decreases of up to 16.6% and 33.3% in RMSE and MAE values. The results indicated that applying PCA in deep learning time series prediction can contribute to practical performance improvements, even with a small number of observations. It also provides a more accurate basis for the establishment of PM2.5 reduction policy in the country.

ACS Style

Sang Choi; Brian Kim. Applying PCA to Deep Learning Forecasting Models for Predicting PM2.5. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3726 .

AMA Style

Sang Choi, Brian Kim. Applying PCA to Deep Learning Forecasting Models for Predicting PM2.5. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (7):3726.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Sang Choi; Brian Kim. 2021. "Applying PCA to Deep Learning Forecasting Models for Predicting PM2.5." Sustainability 13, no. 7: 3726.