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Holbrook Working, Harold Hotelling, Applications of the Theory of Error to the Interpretation of Trends, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 24, No. 165, Supplement: Proceedings of the American Statistical Association (Mar., 1929), pp. 73-85
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