Monthly Archives: September 2006

Greene: I am not, nor have I ever been a member of a data-mining discipline

Sep 4, 2006 – 8:15 AM

Many of the problems in multiproxy studies have very strong parallels in econometrics. It’s really econometricians – who know all about autocorrelated series and data mining – rather than statisticians who really should be involved in climate statistics. Here are some quotes from Clinton Greene, from an article about data mining from an issue of […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in Statistics | Comments (9)

More Tangled Webs

Sep 3, 2006 – 8:57 AM

Here’s something amusing. Mann has written to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, arguing that we made a fundamental and obvious mistake in how we calculated AR1 coefficients for the North American tree ring network, which exaggerated the HS-ness of the simulated hockey sticks – a mistake that Ritson has now supposedly picked up and […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in Barton Committee, MBH98 | Tagged , | Comments (21)

More Bender on Hurricane Counts

Sep 1, 2006 – 3:17 PM

Posted for bender. bender writes: Attached are analyses of Willis’s landfalling hurricane data in post # 35. Interesting facts: 1. 1974-2005 trend is "n.s." (Note 95% confidence intervals now present.) 2. PACs for lag 10 and 20 are marginally significant. (Recall that for total # hurricanes lag 5 and 10 were sig. It is as […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in Hurricane | Comments (559)