The VZ procedure simply does not
generate hockey stick shaped PC1s and can not be used to test the impact of the MBH98 methodology.
The VZ procedure simply does not
generate hockey stick shaped PC1s in the way that the MBH98 procedure does and can not be used to test the impact of the MBH98 methodology.
Not exact matches
Two leading critics, mining consultant Steve McIntyre and economist Ross McKitrick, argued that MBH's computer program
generates hockey stick -
shaped graphs from random data.
Now look at figure 4.4, which contains an ensemble of «
hockey -
stick -
shaped» leading principal components that Mann's critics
generated from random noise.
My position remains that the
hockey stick will be wrong when a better, more robust, more statistically valid reconstruction showing a considerably different
shape is
generated.