Self-affine time series: Measures of weak and strong persistence

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 173-196

  Malamud, Bruce D ^a   Turcotte, Donald L ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Autocorrelation function; Fourier power spectral analysis; Fractals; Fractional noises and motions; Hausdorff exponents; Persistence; Self affine time series; Semivariograms; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033175425     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(98)00249-3     Document Type: Article

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