Exact distribution of the Mann-Kendall trend test statistic for persistent data

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 365, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 86-94

  Hamed, K H ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Climatic variability; Distribution free; Exact distribution; Mann Kendall; Scaling; Trend test

Indexed keywords

POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS; STREAM FLOW; TESTING;

CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; DISTRIBUTION-FREE; EXACT DISTRIBUTION; MANN-KENDALL; SCALING; TREND TEST;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DATABASE; PERSISTENCE; RIVER FLOW; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 58349090861     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.11.024     Document Type: Article

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