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Area of Science:

Time Series Analysis
Statistical Physics
Data Science

Background:

Rescaled Range (R/S) Analysis introduced by Hurst.
Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA) is widely used for time series analysis.
DFA is purported to mitigate nonstationaries in data.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate artifacts introduced by DFA for nonlinear trends.
To compare DFA with explicit detrending methods.
To evaluate the reliability and efficiency of DFA.

Main Methods:

Analysis of artifacts generated by DFA on nonlinear trends.
Comparison of DFA with explicit detrending and random walk diffusional spread.
Evaluation of computational cost and bias.

Main Results:

DFA introduces significant artifacts for nonlinear trends, a finite-size effect.
Empirically observed curvature in DFA is an artifact, not a feature.
Explicit detrending is shown to be a preferable, unbiased estimator.

Conclusions:

DFA introduces uncontrolled bias and artifacts.
DFA is computationally more expensive than unbiased estimators.
There is no compelling reason to prefer DFA over explicit detrending for time series analysis.