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Tag: Statistics
Deconstructing Polls & Surveys
Polls and surveys are indispensable tools for discovering valuable information, but we need to understand their inner workings in order to assess their accuracy.
How epidemiologists try to fool us with flawed statistical practices
We have just completed a study for the National Association of Scholars [1] that took a deep dive looking at flawed statistical practices used in the field of environmental epidemiology.…
A short comment on statistical versus mathematical modelling
From Nature Communications Andrea Saltelli Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 3870 (2019) | Download Citation While the crisis of statistics has made it to the headlines, that of mathematical…
Further to the UAH Lower Temperature Bound
By David Archibald [This looks more like a technical analysis of a stock than a discussion of physical processes to me. Any time series will have a lower bound. Selecting…
Raising the bar on statistical significance
I was searching the early edition of PNAS for the abstract of yet another sloppy “science by press release” that didn’t bother to give the the title of the paper…
97% Undercooked uncertainty
Roman Murieka has a great statistical analysis of the Cook ‘consensus’ paper over at Climate Audit. There’s a surprise result:
Met Office Statistics Questioned
Is there any statistical evidence that global temperatures have changed since 1997 ? Guest post by Clive Best The UK Met Office seem determined to stand by their claim made…
New paper blames about half of global warming on weather station data homogenization
From the told ya so department, comes this recently presented paper at the European Geosciences Union meeting. Authors Steirou and Koutsoyiannis, after taking homogenization errors into account find global warming…
Natural Variability in the Widths of the Tropics
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my previous post, “Does This Analysis Make My Tropics Look Big?“I discussed a paper called “Recent Northern Hemisphere tropical expansion primarily driven by black…
Does This Analysis Make My Tropics Look Big?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is a new paper in Nature magazine that claims that the tropics are expanding. This would be worrisome because it could push the dry…
A mathematician's response to BEST
Doug Keenan, who readers may remember doggedly pursued and won some tree ring data that Queens University held back, was asked to comment of the BEST papers by the Economist.…
Briggs on Berkeley's forthcoming BEST surface temperature record, plus my thoughts from my visit there
UPDATE: for those visiting here via links, see my recent letter regarding Dr. Richard Muller and BEST. I have some quiet time this Sunday morning in my hotel room after…
Quote Of The Week – AGW statistical futility
Here’s a quote related to the McShane and Wyner discussion brought to light thanks to Gavin Schmidt and Michael Mann at RealClimate that I happen to agree with. Yes I…
McShane & Wyner Hockey Stick Smackdown – redux
WUWT readers may remember this popular article from August 30th, 2010 New paper makes a hockey sticky wicket of Mann et al 98/99/08 and then The Team’s response RC’s response to…
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