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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 31.
Published in final edited form as: Physica A. 1997 Dec 1;246(3-4):609–632. doi: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00363-4

Table 1.

Overview of H estimation algorithms

Properties Dispersional analysis Rescaled range analysis
Data type fGn fGn
Partitioning Binary Binary
Local statistic (within a bin) Mean Range/SD
Partition-based statistic (over all bins) SD Mean
Relation of Ĥ to slope of log(partition-based statistic) versus log(scale) Ĥ =1 + slope Ĥ = slope