Homework 6 Responses There are only 3 shelves Most people did complete this assignment – the last Poisson step takes about 5 mins, for instance
This really was an assignment that can be done with a single program that does all the operations. For example, chunk of fortran code to do the last part.
Raw data (max) Amplitude is about 1 C per century But is this too noisy to really define a believable trend?
Use Z-test
Example – exp. smooth @ 0.8 (weights most recent years) – emerging trend better defined
1961-1990 baseline; max = +1.11
1880-1980 baseline; max = +1.28 (better)
Cheating; max = 1.52
Gaussian is really best But beware possible normalization issues – total area under kernel must = 1
Exp. Smoothing @ 0.5 is not useful or meaningful
Why might MIN be better to use for this kind of analysis?
A signal! Statistical Area Test – width = 20 years
Seasonal http://pages.uoregon.edu/bkorkor/html/noisydata.html What is best indicator?
Poisson Average = 6.5; exp(-6.5) = .0015