Persistence matters: Estimation of the statistical significance of paleoclimatic reconstruction statistics from autocorrelated time series
Proxy data forms natural time series used to lengthen instrumental climatic records, and may contain a significant portion of autocorrelation. Increased serial correlation limits the number of independent observations, not satisfying the assumptions of conventional statistical methods. We estimate t...
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| author | Macias-Fauria, M Grinsted, A Helama, S Holopainen, J |
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| description | Proxy data forms natural time series used to lengthen instrumental climatic records, and may contain a significant portion of autocorrelation. Increased serial correlation limits the number of independent observations, not satisfying the assumptions of conventional statistical methods. We estimate the significance of calibration and verification statistics used in dendroclimatic reconstructions by combining Monte-Carlo iterations with frequency (Ebisuzaki) or time (Burg) domain time series modelling. Significance tests are presented for Coefficient of Determination (R 2), Coefficient of Correlation (r 2), Reduction of Error (RE) and Coefficient of Error (CE) for time series ranging from very low to very high autocorrelation. Increased autocorrelation implies higher occurrences of relatively high but spurious reconstruction statistics. Ebisuzaki time series modelling shows greater robustness and its use is recommended over Burg's method, which penalizes the restriction in the number of autocorrelation coefficients imposed by the Akaike Information Criterion. Positive RE and CE values, traditionally viewed as successful reconstruction statistics, are not necessarily significant and depend on the temporal structure of the time series used. This approach is further implemented successfully to compute confidence intervals based on the temporal structure of the residuals of the transfer function. A Matlab ® package and a Windows executable file for non-Matlab ® users are provided to perform the described analyses. © 2011 Istituto Italiano di Dendrocronologia. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:1fbdac4a-1672-43be-85df-4cc94eff56e82022-03-26T11:23:42ZPersistence matters: Estimation of the statistical significance of paleoclimatic reconstruction statistics from autocorrelated time seriesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:1fbdac4a-1672-43be-85df-4cc94eff56e8EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2012Macias-Fauria, MGrinsted, AHelama, SHolopainen, JProxy data forms natural time series used to lengthen instrumental climatic records, and may contain a significant portion of autocorrelation. Increased serial correlation limits the number of independent observations, not satisfying the assumptions of conventional statistical methods. We estimate the significance of calibration and verification statistics used in dendroclimatic reconstructions by combining Monte-Carlo iterations with frequency (Ebisuzaki) or time (Burg) domain time series modelling. Significance tests are presented for Coefficient of Determination (R 2), Coefficient of Correlation (r 2), Reduction of Error (RE) and Coefficient of Error (CE) for time series ranging from very low to very high autocorrelation. Increased autocorrelation implies higher occurrences of relatively high but spurious reconstruction statistics. Ebisuzaki time series modelling shows greater robustness and its use is recommended over Burg's method, which penalizes the restriction in the number of autocorrelation coefficients imposed by the Akaike Information Criterion. Positive RE and CE values, traditionally viewed as successful reconstruction statistics, are not necessarily significant and depend on the temporal structure of the time series used. This approach is further implemented successfully to compute confidence intervals based on the temporal structure of the residuals of the transfer function. A Matlab ® package and a Windows executable file for non-Matlab ® users are provided to perform the described analyses. © 2011 Istituto Italiano di Dendrocronologia. |
| spellingShingle | Macias-Fauria, M Grinsted, A Helama, S Holopainen, J Persistence matters: Estimation of the statistical significance of paleoclimatic reconstruction statistics from autocorrelated time series |
| title | Persistence matters: Estimation of the statistical significance of paleoclimatic reconstruction statistics from autocorrelated time series |
| title_full | Persistence matters: Estimation of the statistical significance of paleoclimatic reconstruction statistics from autocorrelated time series |
| title_fullStr | Persistence matters: Estimation of the statistical significance of paleoclimatic reconstruction statistics from autocorrelated time series |
| title_full_unstemmed | Persistence matters: Estimation of the statistical significance of paleoclimatic reconstruction statistics from autocorrelated time series |
| title_short | Persistence matters: Estimation of the statistical significance of paleoclimatic reconstruction statistics from autocorrelated time series |
| title_sort | persistence matters estimation of the statistical significance of paleoclimatic reconstruction statistics from autocorrelated time series |
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