Calibrating statistical tools: Improving the measure of Humanity's influence on the climate

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)158-166
Seitenumfang9
FachzeitschriftStudies in History and Philosophy of Science
Jahrgang94
Frühes Online-Datum29 Juni 2022
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Aug. 2022

Abstract

Over the last twenty-five years, climate scientists working on the attribution of climate change to humans have developed increasingly sophisticated statistical models in a process that can be understood as a kind of calibration: the gradual changes to the statistical models employed in attribution studies served as iterative revisions to a measurement(-like) procedure motivated primarily by the aim of neutralizing particularly troublesome sources of error or uncertainty. This practice is in keeping with recent work on the evaluation of models more generally that views models as tools for particular tasks: what drives the process is the desire for models that provide more reliable grounds for inference rather than accuracy to the underlying mechanisms of data generation.

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Calibrating statistical tools: Improving the measure of Humanity's influence on the climate. / Dethier, Corey.
in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Jahrgang 94, 08.2022, S. 158-166.

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