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Anderson for suggestions on the use of the “arima” func- 
tion and AIC c model selection, respectively. We further 
thank M. F. Lane, J. L. Costa, J. J. Schaffler, and J. R. 
Ashford for commenting on earlier drafts of this manu- 
script. We thank the three anonymous reviewers for 
their constructive comments on this manuscript. 
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