Selected Papers (1991 to Present)

  1. A. Y. Kim, C. Marzban, D. B. Percival and W. Stuetzle (2009), `Using Labeled Data to Evaluate Change Detectors in a Multivariate Streaming Environment,' Signal Processing, 89, no. 12, pp. 2529-36. Download paper in PDF (2,467,891 bytes); Summary

  2. D. A. Rothrock, D. B. Percival and M. Wensnahan (2008), `The Decline in Arctic Sea-ice Thickness: Separating the Spatial, Annual, and Interannual Variability in a Quarter Century of Submarine Data,' Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 113, C05003, doi:10.1029/2007JC004252. Download paper in PDF (2,371,755 bytes); Summary

  3. A. N. Morabito, D. B. Percival, J. D. Sahr, Z. M. P. Berkowitz and L. E. Vertatschitsch (2008), `Ricean Parameter Estimation Using Phase Information in Low SNR Environments,' IEEE Communications Letters , 12, no. 4, pp. 244-6. Download paper in PDF (183,669 bytes); Summary

  4. G. A. Nichols-Pagel, D. B. Percival, P. G. Reinhall and J. J. Riley (2008), `Should Structure Functions Be Used to Estimate Power Laws in Turbulence? A Comparative Study,' Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 237, no. 5, pp. 665-77. Download paper in PDF (565,187 bytes); Summary

  5. D. B. Percival, D. A. Rothrock, A. S. Thorndike and T. Gneiting (2008), `The Variance of Mean Sea-Ice Thickness: Effect of Long-Range Dependence,' Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 113, C01004, doi:10.1029/2007JC004391. Download paper in PDF (305,124 bytes); Summary

  6. C. Eriksson, A. Omstedt, J. E. Overland, D. B. Percival and H. O. Mofjeld (2007), `Characterizing the European Sub-Arctic Winter Climate since 1500 Using Ice, Temperature, and Atmospheric Circulation Time Series,' Journal of Climate, 20, no. 21, pp. 5319-34. Download paper in PDF (1,523,797 bytes); Summary

  7. K. Smith-DiJulio, D. B. Percival, N. F. Woods, E. Y. Tao and E. S. Mitchell (2007), `Hot Flash Severity in Hormone Therapy Users/Nonusers Across the Menopausal Transition,' Maturitas, 58, no. 2, pp. 191-200. PDF file (147,176 bytes) available upon request; summary

  8. N. F. Woods, K. Smith-DiJulio, D. B. Percival, E. Y. Tao, H. J. Taylor and E. S. Mitchell (2007), `Symptoms during the Menopausal Transition and Early Postmenopause and Their Relation to Endocrine Levels over Time: Observations from the Seattle Midlife Women's Health Study,' Journal of Women's Health, 16, no. 5, pp. 667-77. Download paper in PDF (145,999 bytes); summary

  9. L. Karlöf, D. P. Winebrenner and D. B. Percival (2006), `How Representative is a Time Series Derived from a Firn Core? A Study at a Low Accumulation Site on the Antarctic Plateau,' Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 111, F4, F04001, 11 pages (doi:10.1029/2006JF000552). Download paper in PDF (478,322 bytes); Summary

  10. D. B. Percival (2006), `Spectral Analysis of Clock Noise: A Primer,' Metrologia, 43, no. 4, pp. S299-S310. Download paper in PDF (412,882 bytes); Summary; data for first and second clock noise series used as examples (headers for first and second series)

  11. T. Gneiting, H. Sevcíková, D. B. Percival, M. Schlather and Y. Jiang (2006), `Fast and Exact Simulation of Large Gaussian Lattice Systems in R^2: Exploring the Limits,' Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 15, no. 3, pp. 483-501. Download paper in PDF (393,393 bytes); Summary

  12. C. R. Cornish, C. S. Bretherton and D. B. Percival (2006), `Maximal Overlap Wavelet Statistical Analysis with Application to Atmospheric Turbulence,' Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 119, no. 2, pp. 339-74. Download paper in PDF (2,389,351 bytes); Summary

  13. J. E. Overland, D. B. Percival and H. O. Mofjeld (2006), `Regime Shifts and Red Noise in the North Pacific,' Deep-Sea Research I, 53, no. 4, pp. 582-8. Download paper in PDF (925,171 bytes); Summary

  14. D. B. Percival (2006), `Exact Simulation of Complex-Valued Gaussian Stationary Processes Via Circulant Embedding,' Signal Processing, 86, no. 7, pp. 1470-6. Download paper in PDF (157,615 bytes); Summary

  15. M. Wang, J. E. Overland, D. B. Percival and H. O. Mofjeld (2006), `Change in the Arctic Influence on Bering Sea Climate during the Twentieth Century', International Journal of Climatology, 26, no. 4, pp. 531-9. Download paper in PDF (990,343 bytes); Summary

  16. D. B. Percival and W. L. B. Constantine (2006), `Exact Simulation of Gaussian Time Series from Nonparametric Spectral Estimates with Application to Bootstrapping,' Statistics and Computing, 16, no. 1, pp. 25-35. Download paper in PDF (206,574 bytes); Summary

  17. P. F. Craigmile, P. Guttorp and D. B. Percival (2005), `Wavelet-Based Parameter Estimation for Polynomial Contaminated Fractionally Differenced Processes,' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 53, no. 8, pp. 3151-61. Download paper in PDF (253,461 bytes); Summary

  18. P. F. Craigmile and D. B. Percival (2005), `Asymptotic Decorrelation of Between-Scale Wavelet Coefficients', IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 51, no. 3, pp. 1039-48. Download paper in PDF (172,143 bytes); Summary

  19. D. B. Percival and D. A. Rothrock (2005), `"Eyeballing" Trends in Climate Time Series: A Cautionary Note', Journal of Climate, 18, no. 6, pp. 886-91. Download paper in PDF (99,745 bytes); Summary

  20. R. K. Powers, Y. Dai, B. M. Bell, D. B. Percival and M. D. Binder (2005), `Contributions of the Input Signal and Prior Activation History to the Discharge Behavior of Rat Motoneurones,' The Journal of Physiology, 562, no. 3, pp. 707-24. Download paper in PDF (1,357,882 bytes); Summary

  21. J. E. Overland, M. C. Spillane, D. B. Percival, M. Wang and H. O. Mofjeld (2004), `Seasonal and Regional Variation of Pan-Arctic Surface Air Temperature Over the Instrumental Record', Journal of Climate, 17, no. 17, pp. 3263-82. Download paper in PDF (4,422,879 bytes); Summary

  22. D. B. Percival, M. Wang and J. E. Overland (2004), `An Introduction to Wavelet Analysis with Applications to Vegetation Monitoring', Community Ecology, 5(1), pp. 19-30. Download paper in PDF (189,297 bytes); Summary

  23. P. F. Craigmile, P. Guttorp and D. B. Percival (2004), `Trend Assessment in a Long Memory Dependence Model using the Discrete Wavelet Transform,' Environmetrics, 15(4), pp. 313-35. Download paper in PDF (376,636 bytes); or PostScript (1,678,320 bytes); Summary

  24. G. M. Raymond, D. B. Percival and J. B. Bassingthwaighte (2003), `The Spectra and Periodograms of Anti-correlated Discrete Fractional Gaussian Noise,' Physica A, 322, pp. 169-79. Download paper in PDF (97,342 bytes); Summary

  25. D. B. Percival (2003), `Stochastic Models and Statistical Analysis for Clock Noise,' Metrologia, 40, no. 3, pp. S289-S304. Download paper in PDF (381,264 bytes) or in PostScript (2,528,619 bytes); Summary; errata

  26. D. Tang, K. B. Briggs, K. L. Williams, D. R. Jackson, E. I. Thorsos and D. B. Percival (2002), `Fine-Scale Volume Heterogeneity Measurements in Sand,' IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 27, pp. 546-60. Summary

  27. B. J Whitcher, S. D. Byers, P. Guttorp and D. B. Percival (2002), `Testing for Homogeneity of Variance in Time Series: Long Memory, Wavelets and the Nile River,' Water Resources Research, 38, no. 5, pp. 10.1029/2001WR000509. Download paper in PDF (445,355 bytes); Summary

  28. D. B. Percival, J. E. Overland and H. O. Mofjeld (2001), `Interpretation of North Pacific Variability as a Short- and Long-Memory Process,' Journal of Climate, 14, no. 24, pp. 4545-59. Download paper in PDF; Summary

  29. W. L. B. Constantine, D. B. Percival and P. G. Reinhall (2001), `Inertial Range Determination for Aerothermal Turbulence Using Fractionally Differenced Processes and Wavelets,' Physical Review E, 64, 036301, 12 pages. Download paper in PDF (573,100 bytes); Summary

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. 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.

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. 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

  51. 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

  52. 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

  53. 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

  54. 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


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