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Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) is a simple but very efficient method for investigating the power-law long-term correlations of non-stationary time series, in which a detrending step is necessary to obtain the local fluctuations at…

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The intensity distribution of electromagnetic polar waves in a chain of near-resonant weakly-coupled scatterers is investigated theoretically and supported by a numerical analysis. Critical scaling behavior is discovered for part of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Sanli Faez , Ad Lagendijk , Alexander Ossipov

It is ubiquitous in natural and social sciences that two variables, recorded temporally or spatially in a complex system, are cross-correlated and possess multifractal features. We propose a new method called multifractal detrended…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-12-02 Wei-Xing Zhou

Based on the well-known Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA) for time series, in this work we describe a DFA for continuous real variable functions. Under certain conditions, DFA accurately predicts the long-term auto-correlation of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-11 Luis Gil-Maqueda , Benjamín A. Itzá-Ortiz

This study investigates temporal variability in U.S. climate using harmonic decomposition techniques, specifically Fourier and wavelet transforms. Monthly temperature, precipitation, and drought index data from the National Oceanic and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Thomas Xiao

Avalanche-like plastic bursts in crystalline materials follow power law statistics, but the scaling exponents and cutoff parameters vary widely in the literature ($\alpha$ ranging from 1 to 2.2), hindering predictive modeling. Since…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-24 Missipsa Aissaoui , Charlie Kahloun , Oguz Umut Salman , Sylvain Queyreau

The result provided in this paper helps complete a unified picture of the scaling behavior in heavy-tailed stochastic models for transmission of packet traffic on high-speed communication links. Popular models include infinite source…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-08-17 Clément Dombry , Ingemar Kaj

We examine the Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA), which is a well-established method for the detection of long-range correlations in time series. We show that deviations from scaling that appear at small time scales become stronger in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jan W. Kantelhardt , Eva Koscielny-Bunde , Henio H. A. Rego , Shlomo Havlin , Armin Bunde

I have performed experimental measurements of acoustic emission signals resulting from the drying process of Phyllostachys Pubescens bamboo. The emphasis was on identifying individual events, and characterize them according to their time…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-17 Gabriel Villalobos

An analytical formula for the contributions of the trend leftovers in DFA method is presented, based upon which the crossovers in DFA are investigated in detail. This general formula can explain the calculated results with DFA method for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huijie Yang , Fangcui Zhao , Xizhen Wu , Zhuxia Li , Yizhong Zhuo

Stochastic wind sea is an intermediate small-scale physical process responsible for the state of the atmospheric boundary layer and the water upper layer, having dynamics of all scales. To describe behavior of this system, one could use the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2010-09-13 Vladislav Polnikov

The statistical properties of wave functions at the critical point of the spin quantum Hall transition are studied. The main emphasis is put onto determination of the spectrum of multifractal exponents $\Delta_q$ governing the scaling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. D. Mirlin , F. Evers , A. Mildenberger

Bundles of many fibers, with statistically distributed thresholds for breakdown of individual fibers and where the load carried by a bursting fiber is equally distributed among the surviving members, are considered. During the breakdown…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Srutarshi Pradhan , Alex Hansen , Per C. Hemmer

Warning signs for tipping points (or critical transitions) have been very actively studied. Although the theory has been applied successfully in models and in experiments for many complex systems such as for tipping in climate systems,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Christian Kuehn , Kerstin Lux , Alexandra Neamtu

We investigate the dynamics of subsystem particle number fluctuations in a long-range system with power-law decaying hopping strength characterized by exponent $\mu$ and subjected to a local dephasing at every site. We introduce an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-27 Lokesh Tater , Subhajit Sarkar , Devendra Singh Bhakuni , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

Dual-tree wavelet decompositions have recently gained much popularity, mainly due to their ability to provide an accurate directional analysis of images combined with a reduced redundancy. When the decomposition of a random process is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-08-30 Caroline Chaux , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Laurent Duval

We perform a statistical study on the frequency-dependent damping of slow waves propagating along polar plumes and interplumes in the solar corona. Analysis of a large sample of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imaging data with high spatial and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Sudip Mandal , S. Krishna Prasad , Dipankar Banerjee

We consider two interacting particles on the circle. The particles are subject to stochastic forcing, which is modeled by white noise. In addition, one of the particles is subject to friction, which models energy dissipation due to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Dmitry Dolgopyat , Bassam Fayad , Leonid Koralov , Shuo Yan

Multifractal properties of the energy time series of short $\alpha$-helix structures, specifically from a polyalanine family, are investigated through the MF-DFA technique ({\it{multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis}}). Estimates for…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-01-13 P. H. Figueirêdo , E. Nogueira , M. A. Moret , Sérgio Coutinho

We propose a dynamical mechanism for a scale dependent error growth rate, by the introduction of a class of hierarchical models. The coupling of time scales and length scales is motivated by atmospheric dynamics. This model class can be…

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