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In our endeavours to understand the changing world around us, observations of one kind or another are frequently made sequentially over time. The record of sunspots is a classic example, which may be traced as far back as 28 B.C. (see, e.g. Needham, 1959, p. 435).
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Tong, H. (1983). Introduction. In: Threshold Models in Non-linear Time Series Analysis. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 21. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7888-4_1
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