Be sure to first read Statistical Significance Does Not Mean What You Think. Climate Temperature Trends then Regression Is Not What You Think. Climate And Other Examples, as this post is an […]
Regression Examples. Normal Distributions Often Stink. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 10
Today, just one example, and the simplest kind, to show you that using regular regression, with its assumptions of “normality”, can quickly lead to absurdities—absurdities which will pass unnoticed using classical methods. […]
Can fMRI Predict Who Believes In God? Part V
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII Quick review: people’s heads were stuck in an fMRI; inside, they read questions to which they answered […]
Can fMRI Predict Who Believes In God? Part VI
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII The description on the use of the fMRI (how it works, voltages, etc.) appears, to my untutored […]
Autism Caused By Highways?
Epidemiology is nothing if not a productive field. All that is needed for success is a database (larger the better), a disease (any will do), and some minor facility with statistical software. […]
Regression Is Not What You Think. Climate And Other Examples. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 8
Be sure to first read Statistical Significance Does Not Mean What You Think. Climate Temperature Trends, as this post is an extension of it. As yesterday: If y is some temperature and […]
Two New Papers vs. BEST: Guest Post by Lüdecke, Link, and Ewert
Horst Lüdecke is a Professor of Physiker in EIKE, European Institute for Climate and Energy, Heidelberg; Dr. Link is a physicist with EIKE; Prof. Dr. Friedrich-Karl Ewert is a geologist and member […]
On Global Warming Apoplexy: Temperature Trends
It is a sure sign that Sanity has packed her bags and headed for the door when otherwise sober scientists begin slinging around terms like “denier” and “denialist.” Language like this displays […]
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