Impact Factor (2025): 6.9
DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
The present
research evaluates the influence of precipitation and other associated climatic
factors within wheat and barley germination in Mosul, Iraq, between the 2012
and 2024. The analysis encounters such issues as incomplete data, small sample
size (n=13), and some outliers. Multiple Imputation by Chained Equations (MICE)
was used to impute the missing values to ensure the variability was realistic,
as well as to maintain the inter-variable relationships. Ordinary least squares
(OLS) and robust estimators (Huber, Tukey, Hampel, S, and MM) regression tests
were performed to measure the importance of rainfall and other climatic
distinguishing variables including temperature, humidity, wind, and sun
radiant. In wheat, OLS model had the R 2 value of 0.479, as compared to
adjusted R 2 value of -0.25, the level of error in the residual was about
515,500 tons as compared to Tukey M- estimator whose error level in the
residual was about 104,000 tons which showed the significance of robust methods
when dealing with outliers. In barley, OLS gave R 2 = 0.442, the standard error
of the residual = cannot be smaller than 991, 300 tons, whereas robust estimators
gave a higher degree of stability. Five observations of wheat were detected as
strong outliers and a few observations of barley were strong outliers, and the
apparent significant association between climatic variables (e.g., wind
direction vs. wheat: -0.792) is some suggestion of the presence of
multicollinearity. Monte Carlo simulations showed that methods that are robust
are more effective than OLS in the presence of Y contamination and LTS do not
perform the same in the presence of X contamination. These results demonstrate
the importance of precipitation in crop germination and the need to apply
efficient statistical methods, outlier test, and prudent management of this
multicollinear weather variable to come up with effective predictions of Mosul
wheat and barley products.
Country : Iraq
IRJIET, Volume 9, Issue 12, December 2025 pp. 131-139