The AMS is re-issuing its statement on the necessity of using probability in forecasts. I am on the committee that is re-drafting, or, as they to say, “wordsmithing”, it. If you know […]
AMS conference report: day 3
More on hurricanes today. Jim Elsner, with co-author Tom Jagger, both from Florida State University started off by warning against using naive statistical methods on count data, such as hurricanes. Especially don’t […]
AMS conference report: day 2
The convention center in New Orleans is impossibly overcrowded; the last time I saw lanes of people so thick was at the Ann Arbor Arts Fair many years ago. And I heard, […]
National Post says statisticians needed too
Canada’s National Post, in a piece from a little more than a year ago, made a call for more statisticians to be involved in climate change research, much as the American Meteorological […]
Statisticians global warming plea: don’t forget about us!
Who doesn’t love to read about statistics and statisticians? That’s a rhetorical question, my friends, so don’t bother answering. But I will allude to an answer, by telling you that I begin […]
Ralph Peters gets his stats right: the New York Times purposely misleads
I’m a veteran and haven’t killed anybody in years. But if you read the New York Times you’d be right to worry that I might. The Sunday, 13 January 2008, edition of […]
First documented casualty of anthropogenic global warming
It may finally be time to start worrying. The horrible effects of global warming look to have begun It is estimated that at the Battle of the Somme in World War I, […]
Climatologists are nice people
Most warm weekends, you can find me in Central Park by the Tavern on the Green playing the beautiful game of petanque. This is the French version of bocci, only unlike the […]
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