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Statistical Considerations in the Analysis of Solar Oscillation Data by the Superposed Epoch Method*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

S. E. Forbush ,
M. A. Pomerantz ,
S. P. Duggal  and
C. H. Tsao
S. E. Forbush
Affiliation:
Bartol Research Foundation of The Franklin Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19711, U.S.A.
M. A. Pomerantz
Affiliation:
Bartol Research Foundation of The Franklin Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19711, U.S.A.
S. P. Duggal
Affiliation:
Bartol Research Foundation of The Franklin Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19711, U.S.A.
C. H. Tsao
Affiliation:
Bartol Research Foundation of The Franklin Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19711, U.S.A.

Abstract

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Although the method of superposed epochs (Chree analysis) has been utilized for seven decades, a procedure to determine the statistical significance of the results has not been available heretofore. Consequently, various subjective methods have been utilized in the interpretation of Chree analysis results in several fields. The major problem in the statistical treatment of Chree analysis results arises from the fact that in most studies of natural phenomena, data are neither random nor sequentially independent. In this paper, a statistical procedure which takes this factor into account is developed.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 66: Problems of Solar and Stellar Oscillations , 1983 , pp. 113 - 122
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983

Footnotes

†

Shakti P. Duggal died, July 11, 1982.

*

Proceedings of the 66th IAU Colloquium: Problems in Solar and Stellar Oscillations, held at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, U.S.S.R., 1–5 September, 1981.

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