In the first two parts we looked at some basic statistical concepts, especially the idea of sampling from a distribution, and investigated how this question is answered: Does this sample come from a population of mean = μ? If we can answer this abstract-looking question then we can consider questions such as: “how likely is it that [...]
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Statistics and Climate – Part Three – Autocorrelation
Posted in Statistics on July 31, 2011 | 65 Comments »
Statistics and Climate – Part Two
Posted in Statistics on July 28, 2011 | 12 Comments »
In Part One we raced through some basics, including the central limit theorem which is very handy. This theorem tells us that even if we don’t know the type of distribution of a population we can say something very specific about the mean of a sample from that population (subject to some caveats). Even though [...]
Statistics and Climate – Part One
Posted in Statistics on July 24, 2011 | 23 Comments »
I am very much a novice with statistics. Until recently I have avoided stats in climate, but of course, I keep running into climate science papers which introduce some statistical analysis. So I decided to get up to speed and this series is aimed at getting me up to speed as well as, hopefully, providing [...]
Models, On – and Off – the Catwalk – Part Three
Posted in Climate Models on July 3, 2011 | 90 Comments »
In Frontiers of Climate Modeling, Jeffrey Kiehl says: The study of the Earth’s climate system is motivated by the desire to understand the processes that determine the state of the climate and the possible ways in which this state may have changed in the past or may change in the future.. Earth’s climate system is [...]
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