Refereed Papers (2000 and Earlier)

  1. B. J Whitcher, P. Guttorp and D. B. Percival (2000), `Multiscale Detection and Location of Multiple Variance Changes in the Presence of Long Memory,' Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 68, no. 1, pp. 65-88. Download paper in PDF (387,136 bytes) or PostScript (gzipped, 193,086 bytes); Summary

  2. B. J Whitcher, P. Guttorp and D. B. Percival (2000), `Wavelet Analysis of Covariance with Application to Atmospheric Time Series,' Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, no. D11, pp. 14,941-62. Download paper in PDF (1,204,527 bytes) or PostScript (gzipped, 369,237 bytes); Summary

  3. A. Serroukh, A. T. Walden and D. B. Percival (2000), `Statistical Properties and Uses of the Wavelet Variance Estimator for the Scale Analysis of Time Series,' Journal of the American Statistical Association, 95, no. 449, pp. 184-96. Summary

  4. A. Eke, P. Herman, J. B. Bassingthwaighte, G. M. Raymond, D. B. Percival, M. Cannon, I. Balla and C. Ikrenyi (2000), `Physiological Time Series: Distinguishing Fractal Noises from Motions,' Pflugers Archiv -- European Journal of Physiology}, 439, no. 4, pp. 403-15.

  5. C. A. Greenhall, D. A. Howe and D. B. Percival (1999), `Total Variance, an Estimator of Long-Term Frequency Stability,' IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 46, pp. 1183-91. Download paper in PDF (197,321 bytes) or gzipped PostScript for text (514,165 bytes) and figures (18,216 bytes); Summary

  6. S. Sardy, D. B. Percival, A. G. Bruce, H.-Y. Gao and W. Stuetzle (1999), `Wavelet Shrinkage for Unequally Spaced Data,' Statistics and Computing, 9, pp. 65-75. Download paper in PostScript (gzipped, 136,588 bytes); Summary

  7. A. T. Walden, D. B. Percival and E. J. McCoy (1998), `Spectrum Estimation by Wavelet Thresholding of Multitaper Estimators,' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 46, no. 12, pp. 3153-65. Download paper in PDF (235,743 bytes) or PostScript (gzipped, 541,957 bytes); Summary

  8. E. J. McCoy, A. T. Walden and D. B. Percival (1998), `Multitaper Spectral Estimation of Power Law Processes,' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 46, no. 3, pp. 655-68. Download paper in PostScript (468,008 bytes); Summary

  9. D. B. Percival and H. O. Mofjeld (1997), `Analysis of Subtidal Coastal Sea Level Fluctuations Using Wavelets,' Journal of the American Statistical Association, 92, no. 439, pp. 868-80. Download paper in PDF (800,226 bytes); download data from StatLib (80,779 bytes); Summary

  10. D. C. Caccia, D. B. Percival, M. J. Cannon, G. M. Raymond and J. B. Bassingthwaighte (1997), `Analyzing Exact Fractal Time Series: Evaluating Dispersional Analysis and Rescaled Range Methods,' Physica A, 246, no. 3-4, pp. 609-32. Summary

  11. M. J. Cannon, D. B. Percival, D. C. Caccia, G. M. Raymond and J. B. Bassingthwaighte (1997), `Evaluating Scaled Windowed Variance Methods for Estimating the Hurst Coefficient of Time Series,' Physica A, 241, no. 3-4, pp. 606-26. Summary

  12. J. B. Bassingthwaighte, D. A. Beard, D. B. Percival and G. M. Raymond (1996), `Fractal Structures and Processes,' in Chaos and the Changing Nature of Science and Medicine: An Introduction (AIP Conference Proceedings, No. 376), edited by D. E. Herbert, Woodbury, New York: AIP Press, pp. 54-79. Summary

  13. R. W. Lindsay, D. B. Percival and D. A. Rothrock (1996), `The Discrete Wavelet Transform and the Scale Analysis of the Surface Properties of Sea Ice,' IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 34, no. 3, pp. 771-87. Summary

  14. D. B. Percival (1995), `On Estimation of the Wavelet Variance,' Biometrika, 82, no. 3, pp. 619-31. Download PDF files for paper (186,589 bytes) and proofs of theorems in paper (63,445 bytes); Summary

  15. D. A. Howe and D. B. Percival (1995), `Wavelet Variance, Allan Variance, and Leakage,' IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IM-44, no. 2, pp. 94-7. Download paper in PostScript (gzipped, 413,070 bytes); Summary

  16. A. T. Walden, E. J. McCoy and D. B. Percival (1995), `The Effective Bandwidth of a Multitaper Spectral Estimator,' Biometrika, 82, no. 1, pp. 201-14. Summary

  17. I. R. Joughin, D. P. Winebrenner and D. B. Percival (1994), `Probability Density Functions for Multilook Polarimetric Signatures,' IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 32, no. 3, pp. 562-74.

  18. A. T. Walden, E. J. McCoy and D. B. Percival (1994), `The Variance of Multitaper Spectrum Estimates for Real Gaussian Processes,' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 42, no. 2, pp. 479-82. Summary

  19. D. B. Percival (1993), `Three Curious Properties of the Sample Variance and Autocovariance for Stationary Processes with Unknown Mean,' The American Statistician, 47, no. 4, pp. 274-6. Download paper in PDF (80,174 bytes) or PostScript (gzipped, 368,610 bytes); Summary

  20. M. C. Gregg, H. E. Seim and D. B. Percival (1993), `Statistics of Shear and Turbulent Dissipation Profiles in Random Internal Wave Fields,' Journal of Physical Oceanography, 23, no. 8, pp. 1777-99. Summary

  21. B. M. Bell, D. B. Percival and A. T. Walden (1993), `Calculating Thomson's Spectral Multitapers by Inverse Iteration,' Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2, no. 1, pp. 119-30. Summary

  22. I. R. Joughin, D. B. Percival and D. P. Winebrenner (1993), `Maximum Likelihood Estimation of K Distribution Parameters for SAR Data,' IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 31, no. 5, pp. 989-99. Summary

  23. J. E. Tillman, N. C. Johnson, P. Guttorp and D. B. Percival (1993), `The Martian Annual Atmospheric Pressure Cycle: Years Without Great Dust Storms,' Journal of Geophysical Research E, 98, no. E6, pp. 10,963-71. Summary

  24. D. B. Percival (1992), `Simulating Gaussian Random Processes with Specified Spectra,' Computing Science and Statistics, 24, pp. 534-8. Download paper in PDF (104,229 bytes) or PostScript (gzipped, 446,174 bytes); Summary

  25. B. M. Bell and D. B. Percival (1991), `A Two Step Burg Algorithm,' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 39, no. 1, pp. 185-9. Summary

  26. D. B. Percival (1991), `Characterization of Frequency Stability: Frequency Domain Estimation of Stability Measures,' Proceedings of the IEEE, 79, no. 7, pp. 961-72. Summary

  27. T. E. Ewart and D. B. Percival (1986), `Forward Scattered Waves in Random Media - The Probability Distribution of Intensity,' Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 80, no. 6, pp. 1745--53.

  28. D. B. Percival (1978), `The U. S. Naval Observatory Clock Time Scales,' IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IM-27, no. 4, pp. 376-85.

  29. G. M. R. Winkler, R. G. Hall and D. B. Percival (1970), `The U. S. Naval Observatory Clock Time Reference and the Performance of a Sample of Atomic Clocks,' Metrologia, 6, no. 4, pp. 126-34.


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