Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research

Time Series Analysis I, II, III course modules

GEOS 595F Dendrochronology Colloquium

Day of week:

(to be decided)

Time:

(to be decided)

Location:

(to be decided)

Credits:

1 for each module

Call number:

Instructors:

• Charles W. Stockton (Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research)
• David M. Meko (Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research).

Organizational Meeting:

(to be announced)

This is a basic course in the application of time series statistical techniques to tree-ring data and other geophysical series.

Module I

will include basic exploratory analysis (with emphasis on graphical methods), determination of appropriate probability distribution functions, computation and interpretation of descriptive statistics, the sample autocorrelation function, and sample spectrum.

Module II

will address basic modeling techniques for univariate and multivariate time series, including ARIMA modeling and multiple linear regression in a time series context.

Module III

will focus on spatial analysis of multiple time series, including principal components analysis and methods of climate reconstruction using spatial networks of tree-ring data.

Note: I,II and III are a sequence, thus allowed selections are (I) (I,II) (I,II,III), but (II) (III) and (II,III) are not allowed.

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