Awareness of both type 1 and 2 errors in climate science and assessment

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1445-1451

  Anderegg, William R L ^a   Callaway, Elizabeth S ^b   Boykoff, Maxwell T ^c   Yohe, Gary ^d   Root, Terry L ^e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ERRORS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTIONS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; RISK BASED APPROACHES; SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY; STATISTICAL FORMULATION; SYNTHESIS REPORTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84910069673     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00115.1     Document Type: Review

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