THE SINGULAR-SPECTRUM ANALYSIS TOOLKIT
USER'S GUIDE

Manual Reference Pages for Version 3.1 (ssa, carlo, mtm, spectrum)

The developers of the SSA Toolkit are researchers attempting to make some useful time-series analysis methods more accessible to the scientific community. Although we use the tools ourselves and have made every effort to ensure their accuracy, we can not make any guarantees. We provide the Toolkit to you for free, but it is copyrighted. In return, you--the user--assume full responsibility for use of the software. The SSA Toolkit and this Guide come without any warranties (implied or expressed) and are not guaranteed to work for you or on your computer. Specifically, the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric Sciences; U.S. Geological Survey; Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique; and the various individuals involved in development and maintenance of the SSA Toolkit are not responsible for any damage that may result from correct or incorrect use of this software.

This Guide may be reproduced and distributed freely, provided that this page is preserved on all copies and remains unaltered.

Reference to the Toolkit

If you feel that your research has benefitted from the use of the SSA Toolkit, you can repay us by citing our Eos article:

• Dettinger, M.D., Ghil, M., Strong, C.M., Weibel, W., and Yiou, P., 1995: Software expedites singular-spectrum analysis of noisy time series, Eos, Trans. American Geophysical Union, v. 76(2), p. 12, 14, 21.

We also appreciate your references to the original articles that motivated and made the Toolkit possible (see the reference list), and especially to

• Vautard, R., Yiou, P., and Ghil, M., 1992: Singular-spectrum analysis: A toolkit for short, noisy chaotic signals, Physica D, 58, 95-126.