Hello,

I am trying to decide which package to use to calculate the non-parametric
Sen's Slope for identifying trends in rainfall data (determine the slope
between all pairs of points and take the median of those slopes).  I have
found three packages that output Sen's: "zyp", "wq" and "fume".  The
outputs of "zyp.sen()" and "mannKen()" from the zyp and wq packages match,
but the output from fume's "mkTrend" is different.  I tried looking at the
code from these three and I could not really understand what zyp and wq are
doing differently.

It seems like "fume" is the only package that calculates a corrected Mann
Kendall p-value based on temporal autocorrelation, so I would like to use
this package to calculate my p-values, but I am cautious because if the
calculations for Sen's are incorrect, maybe the corrected p-value is not
correct either?

Please let me know if I should provide some examples - but the
discrepancies seem to show up in any dataset I use.  Thanks!

Abby

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