Estimating long-range dependence in time series: An evaluation of estimators implemented in R

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 909-923

  Stroe Kunold, Esther ^a   Stadnytsk, Tetiana ^a   Werner, Joachim ^a   Braun, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICS; TIME;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 68949209329     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.41.3.909     Document Type: Article

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