Determine the Most Important Factors Affecting Air Pollution Using the Reciprocal Lasso Method

Abstract

Air pollution is one of the important problems that our country, Iraq, suffers from at the present time . Pollution has many risks the most important being that it affects human health primarily and some economic risks. In order to find out the most critical factors affecting air pollution, a group of factors that affect air pollution was studied and analyzed using one of the methods of selecting variables, the Reciprocal Lasso method. from collected monthly data for a period of five years (2016-2020), And using the R language program, it was concluded that the most important factors affecting air pollution mainly are three factors (burning gas associated with oil production, gas emissions from car exhausts, burning waste in landfill sites).