Gerg's Net

You’ve got some data and think a Pearson type III distribution might fit it nicely, but how do you go about choosing the parameters? The obvious way — using the mean, standard deviation and skewness of the sample — is much frowned upon. That’s because it can give a biased fit, although in the real world it often performs well, as we’ll see. . . . → Read More: Fitting the Pearson type 3

We’ve updated sea ice, so it’s time to have another look at the global temperature series I last updated nearly a year ago. Here’s the instrumental averages with another year on the traces. Ho-hum … still shooting up; still on track

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