Tag Archives: ridge

Speculating Privately

Feb 18, 2011 – 11:40 PM

Iridge versus TTLS. What if a key text on this conundrum of the day resided in an anonymous open peer review? Would we, within the ethical standards of modern climate science, be entitled to speculate on the identity of the author of these pearls? Or would that be an ethical violation “as bad as possible”? […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged , , | Comments (118)

Smerdon et al 2008 on RegEM

Feb 13, 2009 – 11:22 AM

Smerdon et al 2008 is an interesting article on RegEM, continuing a series of exchanges between Smerdon and the Mann group that has been going on for a couple of years. We haven’t spent much time here on RegEM as we might have. I did a short note in Nov 2007 here. In July and […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in RegEM | Also tagged , , , | Comments (45)

Re-Visiting RegEM: Rutherford et al 2005

Nov 22, 2007 – 3:02 PM

Mann et al 2007 is a new RegEM version, replacing the RegEM calculations of Rutherford et al 2005. The logic is not entirely self-contained and so I re-visited some of our previous comments on Rutherford et al here here here here . I’m going to reprise two issues today: Collation Errors, a small but amusing […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in RegEM | Also tagged , , , | Comments (28)

More on "Naturally Orthogonal"

Apr 7, 2007 – 11:16 AM

I realize that not all CA readers are interested in multivariate methods and that dendroclimatologists want to “forget the math”, but I find it interesting to try to relate dendro and paleoclimate recipes to known statistical methodologies that you can read about in texts. I commented the other day on the form of Principal Components […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in Multivariate, Noamer Treeline, RegEM, Statistics | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (5)

RegEM

Jul 7, 2006 – 6:27 AM

RegEM has reared its ugly head again in Mann’s review of Burger and Cubasch.

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in MBH98, RegEM | Also tagged , , | Comments (52)

Benchmarking from VZ Pseudoproxies

Jul 4, 2006 – 2:09 PM

Von Storch et al 2004 advocated using climate models to generate pseudoproxies to test the properties of proposed multivariate methods. Hardly unreasonable. I might argue that these are long-winded ways of generating proxy series with certain kinds of temporal and spatial covariance structures, but there’s much to be said for testing methods on some standard […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in Multivariate, RegEM | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (72)