Field significance of regression patterns

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 5094-5107

  DelSole, Timothy ^a,b   Yang, Xiaosong ^a,b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Regression analysis; Sea surface temperature; Statistical techniques; Trends; Wind

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL AVERAGE; BOREAL WINTERS; CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CANONICAL CORRELATIONS; CLIMATE INDEX; COMPLEX MODEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COVARIANCE MATRICES; CROSS VALIDATION; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST; HYPOTHESIS TESTS; LONG-TERM TREND; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; SAMPLE SIZES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SIGNIFICANCE TEST; SPATIAL FILTERS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TEMPORAL FILTERING; TRENDS; UNIVARIATE; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COVARIANCE MATRIX; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL TESTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TARGET TRACKING;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CORRELATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 80055037846     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4105.1     Document Type: Article

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