dplR (version 1.6.8)

sens1: Calculate Mean Sensitivity

Description

This function calculates mean sensitivity of a detrended ring-width series.

Usage

sens1(x)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector containing the series

Value

the mean sensitivity.

Details

This calculates mean sensitivity according to Eq. 1 in Biondi and Qeadan (2008). This is the standard measure of sensitivity in dendrochronology and is typically calculated on detrended series. However, note that mean sensitivity is not a robust statistic and should rarely, if ever, be used (Bunn et al. 2013).

References

Biondi, F. and Qeadan, F. (2008) Inequality in Paleorecords. Ecology, 89(4), 1056<U+2013>1067.

Bunn, A. G., Jansma, E., Korpela, M., Westfall, R. D., and Baldwin, J. (2013) Using simulations and data to evaluate mean sensitivity (\(\zeta\)) as a useful statistic in dendrochronology. Dendrochronologia, 31(3), 250<U+2013>254.

See Also

sens2, rwl.stats

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(utils)
data(ca533)
ca533.rwi <- detrend(rwl = ca533, method = "ModNegExp")
sens1(ca533.rwi[, 1])
# }