An analysis of pulsation periods of long period variable stars

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 587-606

  Hart, Jeffrey D ^a   Koen, Chris ^b   Lombard, Fred ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

False discovery rate; Multiple hypotheses testing; Profile likelihood; Smoothing methods; Trend detection; Variable stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848845012     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2007.00593.x     Document Type: Article

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