Abstract: In this paper, a penalized maximal t test (PMT) is proposed for detecting undocumented mean shifts in climate data series. PMT takes the relative position of each candidate changepoint into account, to diminish the effect ...

Abstract: This study integrates a Box?Cox power transformation procedure into a common trend two-phase regression-model-based test (the extended version of the penalized maximal F test, or ?PMFred,? algorithm) for detecting changepoints ...