  With the growing number of projects dedicated to the search for extrasolar
planets via transits, there is a need to develop fast, automatic, robust
methods with a statistical background in order to efficiently do the analysis.
We propose a modified analysis of variance (AoV) test particularly suitable for
the detection of planetary transits in stellar light curves. We show how
savings of labor by a factor of over 10 could be achieved by the careful
organization of computations. Basing on solid analytical statistical
formulation, we discuss performance of our and other methods for different
signal-to-noise and number of observations.
