Nonparametric test performance for trends in water quality with sampling design applications

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 347-357

  Thas, O ^a   Van Vooren, L ^a   Ottoy, J P ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Nonparametric tests; Statistics; Trend detection; Water quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL TESTS; VISUALIZATION;

MANN-KENDALL TESTS; NONPARAMETRIC TESTS;

WATER QUALITY;

MONITORING; TESTING; WATER QUALITY; WATER QUALITY MONITORING;

EID: 0032053807     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1998.tb04140.x     Document Type: Article

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