Not exact matches
We strongly recommend all
papers reporting potential new biomarkers be evaluated
by an independent
statistician before submission.
A somewhat obscure study on statistical methods published in 2009
by medical
statistician Ying Lu at Stanford University, California in a specialty journal on clinical trials, was downloaded 2000 times in early August, making it the hottest
paper among Stanford University's 5439 registered users.
The PNAS
paper, written
by Romy van der Lee and Naomi Ellemers of Leiden University's Institute of Psychology, is an example of a classic statistical trap, says
statistician Casper Albers of the University of Groningen, who tore the
paper apart in a blog post yesterday.
The pioneering work on «robust statistics,» or statistical methods that can tolerate corrupted data, was done
by statisticians, but both new
papers come from groups of computer scientists.
The
paper published on Wednesday included the first attempt
by government
statisticians to come up with figures that set out how many children from different income brackets go to grammar schools.
As I said above, there was no discussion or even recognition of this point in the M&M
papers or Wegman et al. (And, yes, I do recognize that centering on the calibration period has been denigrated
by statisticians, but clearly using conventional centering has little effect on the final result).
Defending the Michael Mann
paper that is fraught with statistically illogical and unsupportable claims and fully debunked
by a Ph.D.
statistician.
For readers patient and persistent enough to have come this far, there is a
paper called «Non-Othogonal Spectral Analysis»
by statistician / anaesthesiologist Emery Brown, published in one of the biological rhythms journals about 14 years ago.
The report for Barton was prepared
by three
statisticians, Edward Wegman, David Scott and Yasmin Said, and its only novel contribution is a social network analysis, which is meant to show that the various independent studies aren't really independent and that peer review has broken down, since the same group of interlinked academics is reviewing each others»
papers.
Then read professional
statistician (multiple peer reviewed publications on climate change) Tamino's explanation of a new
paper supporting the existence of sea level rise acceleration so much that
by the year 2100 sea level would be.654 meters higher than in 2005, supporting the projections of IPCC AR5's RCP 8.5.
The agency said the
papers were withdrawn over «concerns raised
by an independent
statistician about the statistical analysis of tide gauge records».
Tingley is very active in fighting with M&W nowadays, pay attention to the latter
paper which is coauthored
by a flamboyant team of professional
statisticians!
Gavin Schmidt, Michael Mann, and Scott Rutherford (apparently representing the Team) have written a scathing comment letter to the Annals of Applied Statistics about the recent allegedly «hockey - stick busting»
paper by the naïve
statisticians McShane and Wyner entitled A Statistical Analysis of Multiple Temperature Proxies: Are Reconstructions of Surface Temperatures Over the Last 1000 Years Reliable?
Perhaps involving a
statistician would be helpful but then tens of thousands of
papers have been published
by scientists with functional application knowledge of stats that did not require such special assistance and yet involved much more thorny statistical challenges.
After the NRC review was released, another analysis
by four
statisticians, called the Wegman report, which was not formally peer - reviewed, was more critical of the hockey - stick
paper.