Tag Archives: pc retention

Gavin and the PC Stories

Mar 3, 2009 – 12:27 AM

How many principal components to retain? Recent readers of Climate Audit may not realize that this was an absolute battleground issue of MBH and Wahl and Ammann. In one sense, it was never resolved with MBH back in 2003-2005, but that was before the existence of blogs made it possible to focus attention on problems. […]

By Steve McIntyre | Posted in Steig at al 2009 | Also tagged , | Comments (98)

Why did Steig use a cut-off parameter of k=3?

Feb 23, 2009 – 11:44 PM

A question that Jean S inquired about before we were so rudely interrupted. The expanation in Steig et al was: Principal component analysis of the weather station data produces results similar to those of the satellite data analysis, yielding three separable principal components. We therefore used the RegEM algorithm with a cut-off parameter k=3…. A […]

By Steve McIntyre | Posted in RegEM, Steig at al 2009 | Also tagged , | Comments (143)
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