Category: Significance

• a song in praise of data scientist Rebekah Jones

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Mathematical Society . American Statistical Association . Boston Ethical Society . children as political casualties . Data for Good . data science . geographic . geographic information systems . International Society for Bayesian Statistics . journalism . mathematics . New England Statistical Society . pandemic . Rebekah Jones . Risky Talk . science . Significance . statistical ecology . statistics . the problem of evil . whistleblowing . “The tide is risin’/And so are we”

  Dec 12.2020
• On odds of storms, and extreme precipitation

  American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . catastrophe modeling . climate disruption . climate economics . climate education . ecopragmatism . evidence . extreme events . extreme value distribution . flooding . floods . games of chance . global warming . global weirding . insurance . meteorological models . meteorology . R . R statistical programming language . real estate values . risk . Risky Business . riverine flooding . science . Significance

  Dec 20.2019
• Less evidence for a global warming hiatus, and urging more use of Bayesian model averaging in climate science

  American Statistical Association . Andrew Parnell . anomaly detection . Anthropocene . Bayesian . Bayesian model averaging . Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project . BEST . climate change . David Spiegelhalter . dependent data . Dublin . GISTEMP . global warming . Grant Foster . HadCRUT4 . hiatus . Hyper Anthropocene . JAGS . Markov Chain Monte Carlo . Martyn Plummer . Mathematics and Climate Research Network . MCMC . model-free forecasting . Niamh Cahill . Significance . statistics . Stefan Rahmstorf . Tamino

  Feb 14.2018