Queensland Rain: Quick ‘n’ Dirty Climatology
My last post, on the connection between the equatorial Pacific Ocean and the floods in Eastern Australia, closed with a graph of the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) over the past 40 years, and with an...
View ArticleA Very Short Introduction to Time Series
Last week, I gave a presentation on the basics of time series statistics to an informal group of students in biology, forestry, and fisheries who meet every week to share tips and talk over problems...
View ArticleMust it be Santa? A case study in Bayesian updating
Ah, Christmas eve. A magical day when we reflect on the deep questions. Is there anything more valuable than family togetherness? What is the true meaning of the season? Who is that strange man...
View ArticleDo not flip-flop variables to make them work in your #@%*^& ANOVA
I was reading a paper this morning. It included a perversion of a common statistical analysis that is fundamentally wrong, utterly unneccesary, and has an easy solution. This perversion, unfortunately,...
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