Penalized maximal F test for detecting undocumented mean shift without trend change

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 368-384

  Wang, Xiaolan L ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; ERRORS; FOOD PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TESTING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); AND DETECTION; CHANGE-POINTS; CLIMATE DATA; FALSE ALARM RATE (FAR); HIT RATE; MEAN SHIFT (MS); MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (MCS); PENALTY FUNCTIONS; REGRESSION MODELLING; RELATIVE POSITIONING; SAMPLE SIZES; STANDARD DEVIATION (STD); TIME SERIES; UNEVEN DISTRIBUTION;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

ALARM SIGNAL; CLIMATE MODELING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DETECTION METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 45249124469     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHA982.1     Document Type: Article

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