Applicability of prewhitening to eliminate the influence of serial correlation on the Mann-Kendall test

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 4-1-4-7

  Yue, Sheng ^a   Wang, Chun Yuan ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b YANGTZE RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Mann Kendall test; Prewhitening; Serial correlation; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; HYDROLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

PREWHITENING;

WATER RESOURCES;

HYDROLOGY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036592319     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr000861     Document Type: Article

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