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Statistical techniques for analysing time series, range from the straightforward to the very sophisticated. This chapter describes some fairly simple techniques which will often detect the main properties of a given series. More sophisticated techniques, such as spectral analysis, must await a study of the theory of stationary time series.
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Chatfield, C. (1975). Simple Descriptive Techniques. In: The Analysis of Time Series: Theory and Practice. Monographs on Applied Probability and Statistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2925-9_2
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