Improving Community Health with Renewable Energy Source

Applied Panel Regression, Breusch-Pagan test, the Hausman test, and the Granger Causality test to examine the relationship between non-renewable energy consumption and asthma prevalence.

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About the Project

The main goal of this project was to explore the relationship between the consumption of non-renewable energy and prevalence of respiratory diseases, especially asthma. The ultimate aim was to prove the causality: The more non-renewable energy consumed, the higher prevelance of asthma.

Methodology

  • The following relationships were carefully examined:
    • causality between renewable energy source consumption and air quality
    • causality between air quality and asthma rates
    • causality between renewable energy consumption and reduction in toxic air components
    • causality between air components and air quality
  • Applied Panel Regression, Breusch-Pagan test, the Hausman test, and the Granger Causality test

*The analysis and a 12-page-long research paper was completed in a limit of 8 hours.

Further Details

For more information, check out the Research Paper here.

About The Data Open

The Data Open is a datathon competition taking place throughout the year at a series of top universities. At each event, participants work in teams to work through a large and complex dataset and then present their findings to a panel of judges.

For more information, check out the official website here

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