We followed the IID null hypothesis approach of Benestad and others (as noted above, there is plenty of relevant statistical literature on rates of record setting outside the fields of meteorology, climatology, hydrology and oceanography), and some of the time series we investigated are available here. (realclimate.org)
Yet, there is a volume of statistical literature on the subject of record - statistics, and the underlying theory for the likelihood of a record - breaking event taking place in a stable system is remarkably simple (Benestad, 2003, 2004). (realclimate.org)
One of the longstanding CA criticisms of paleoclimate articles is that scientists with little - to - negligible statistical expertise too frequently use ad hoc and homemade methods in important applied articles, rather than proving their methodology in applied statistical literature using examples other than the one that they're trying to prove. (climateaudit.org)