Re-evaluation of the Power of the Mann-Kendall Test for Detecting Monotonic Trends in Hydrometeorological Time Series

The Mann-Kendall (MK) statistical test has been widely applied in the trend detection of the hydrometeorological time series. Previous studies have mainly focused on the null hypothesis of “no trend” or the “Type I Error.” However, few studies address the capability of the MK test to successfully re...

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Main Authors: Fan Wang, Wei Shao, Haijun Yu, Guangyuan Kan, Xiaoyan He, Dawei Zhang, Minglei Ren, Gang Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2020.00014/full