The colour of noise in short ecological time series data

Mathematical Medicine and Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-72

  Rohani, Pejman ^a   Miramontes, Octavio ^b   Keeling, Matt J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pink noise; Population dynamics; Power spectra; Time series data; White noise

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WHITE NOISE;

DATA TREND; ECOLOGICAL DATA; GENERAL TRENDS; LONG-TERM TREND; PINK NOISE; POWER-SPECTRA; RED-SHIFTED; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TIME-SERIES DATA; TIMES SERIES;

POWER SPECTRUM;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 1642286909     PISSN: 14778599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imammb/21.1.63     Document Type: Article

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