The influence of serial correlation on the Mann-Whitney test for detecting a shift in median

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 325-333

  Yue, Sheng ^a   Wang, ChunYuan ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b YANGTZE RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Mann Whitney test; Pre whitening; Serial correlation; Shift

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

SHIFT;

STREAM FLOW;

CORRELATION; HYDROLOGY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036504112     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1708(01)00049-5     Document Type: Article

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