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A method of trend detection for high quantiles of a pollutant such as ozone is presented and applied to 1978-1990 data from two stations downwind of the city of Vancouver in the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia. Theories of order restricted inference and isotonic regression are used for the method. The new statistical methodologies in this article are (a) the use of the chi-square bar statistic...