Resistant, robust and non-parametric techniques for the analysis of climate data: Theory and examples, including applications to historical radiosonde station data

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1197-1226

  Lanzante, John R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Discontinuities; Distributional tests; Homogeneity; Mean; Median; Non normality; Non parametric techniques; Outliers; Radiosonde data quality; Rank tests; Regression; Robustness; Signal to noise ratio; Skewness; Trend analysis; Variance

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOMOGENEITY; PARAMETRIC METHOD; RADIOSONDE DATA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030405159     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199611)16:11<1197::AID-JOC89>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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