The files dipl00?.ps.gz contain my diploma thesis in (gzip-ed) postscript format. You may find the part on 'Methods of Time Series Analysis' interesting, the rest is a bit specialized. note that the files get quite big by unpacking, here is the output of gzip -l dipl00?.psz: compressed uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name 5002 10304 51.7% dipl000.ps 298401 8870747 96.6% dipl002.ps 1071247 11148335 90.3% dipl003.ps 11681 26325 55.7% dipl004.ps 41959 100514 58.2% dipl005.ps 167613 1986753 91.5% dipl001.ps 1595903 22142978 92.7% (totals) arndt (AT) jjj.de these documents are online: http://www.jjj.de/dipl/ Publication based on my thesis: Arndt, J., Herzel, H. P., Bose, S., Falcke, M. and Schöll, E.: Quantification of Transients using Empirical Orthogonal Functions. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 8, 1911-1920 (1997). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0960-0779%2897%2900083-0