measures: Calculate statistical characteristics of an event
Description
This function calculates statistical characteristics for detected events.
Usage
measures(x)
Arguments
x
a time series
Value
a vector consisting of statistical characteristics of event x
Details
Measures used here are standard deviation,
kurtosis, skewness, HD (the absolute Difference between averages of the first and second Half ), nonsmoothness,
test statistic of PP test and ZA test, and maximum, minimum, and kurtosis of the first-order difference of the events.
Please see the reference for details (Kang et al. 2014).
References
Yanfei Kang, Danijel Belusic, Kate Smith-Miles (2014). Classes of structures in the stable at- mospheric boundary layer.
Submitted to Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.