commentary and analysis: The Insignificance of Significance Testing

By N. Nicholls. 2001

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Comparison of Some Statistical Methods of Probabilistic Forecasting of ENSO. (2002, background): “Rather than highlighting these few instances (Nicholls 2001), transformation of the data (to correct for departures from normality) was deemed unnecessary in all cases.”
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