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A temporal record of environmental conditions is often contained within accretionary biological tissue. These records can provide knowledge of the environmental conditions that existed at the time the tissue was formed. In this study, we look at trace element concentrations and isotopic ratios of carbon and nitrogen as contained in baleen from bowhead whales in the eastern and western Arctic Ocean. Time series techniques, including maximum likelihood method and likelihood ratio tests, are applied to analysis of data and inference about their mean structures.
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Shao, Q., Wilson, M.D., Romanek, C.S. et al. Time series analysis of elemental and isotopic data from biomineralized whale tissue. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 11, 323–337 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:EEST.0000038019.84117.e1
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