A note on trend decomposition: The 'classical' approach revisited with an application to surface temperature trends

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 963-972

  Mills, Terence C ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Local polynomial trend; Temperature trends; Trend estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148826101     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760701590418     Document Type: Note

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