An operational definition of a statistically meaningful trend

Linear trend analysis of time series is standard procedure in many scientific disciplines. If the number of data is large, a trend may be statistically significant even if data are scattered far from the trend line. This study introduces and tests a quality criterion for time trends referred to as s...

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Alzheimer's disease
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Climate Change - statistics & numerical data
Criteria
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Hypotheses
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Models, Statistical
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Nitrogen
Phosphorus
Probability
Regression analysis
Significance
Software
Spreadsheet software
Statistical analysis
Statistical significance
Statistics
Statistik
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trend
Trend analysis
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Chlorophyll
Climate Change - statistics & numerical data
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Earth science
Earth sciences
Geovetenskap
Gross Domestic Product - trends
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trend
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