Is the choice of statistical paradigm critical in extreme event attribution studies?

Climatic Change

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 143-150

  Stott, Peter A ^a,b   Karoly, David J ^c,d   Zwiers, Francis W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL TESTS;

BAYESIAN PARADIGM; ESTIMATION PROBLEM; EXTREME EVENTS; FREQUENTIST; HEATWAVES; HUMAN INFLUENCES; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NULL HYPOTHESIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PARADIGM SHIFT;

EID: 85028688611     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-017-2049-2     Document Type: Article

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