I will be in Lyon next Monday to give a talk on "Modeling heat-waves: return period for non-stationary extremes" in a workshop entitled "Changement climatique et gestion des risques". An interesting reference might be some pages from Le Monde (201... [Read more...]

I few years ago, while I was working on kernel based density estimation on compact support distribution (like copulas) I went through a series of papers on circular distributions. By that time, I thought it was something for mathematicians working ... [Read more...]

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IowaHawk has a excellent article attempting to reproduce the infamous CRU climate graph using OpenOffice: Fables of the Reconstruction. We thought we would show how to produced similarly bad results using R. If the re-constructed technique is close to what was originally done then so many bad moves were taken ... [Read more...]