Analysis of long period variable stars with nonparametric tests for trend detection

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 106, Issue 495, 2011, Pages 832-845

  Park, Cheolwoo ^a   Ahn, Jeongyoun ^a   Hendry, Martin ^b   Jang, Woncheol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive Neyman test; False discovery rate; Functional clustering; Multiple testing; Pivotal test; Principal components; SiZer analysis; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054695857     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2011.ap08689     Document Type: Article

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