Using simulations and data to evaluate mean sensitivity (ζ) as a useful statistic in dendrochronology

Dendrochronologia

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 250-254

  Bunn, Andrew G ^a   Jansma, Esther ^b,c   Korpela, Mikko ^d,e   Westfall, Robert D ^f   Baldwin, James ^f  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency (Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed)   (Netherlands)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Time series model

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DATA SET; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES; TREE RING;

EID: 84883463793     PISSN: 11257865     EISSN: 16120051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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