eng TQMP Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology 1913-4126 2011-06-08 7 2 21 31 article Frédéric Dandurand frederic.dandurand@umontreal.ca 1 Thomas R. Shultz thomas.shultz@mcgill.ca 2 Université de Montréal McGill University Automatic Maxima Detection is a statistical tool to detect and measure local maxima in functional data (Dandurand and Shultz, 2010). A typical use of AMD is the identification of growth spurts in time-varying data. The current paper provides a complete hands-on tutorial for how to use AMD, a new graphical user interface (GUI) and advanced scripts. http://www.tqmp.org/Content/vol07-2/p021/p021.pdf maxima detection graphical interface