Maximum likelihood environmental calibration and the computer program WACALIB - a correction

被引:11
作者
Birks, HJB
机构
[1] Univ Bergen, Inst Bot, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
[2] UCL, Environm Change Res Ctr, London WC1H 0AP, England
关键词
maximum likelihood; Gaussian regression; weighted averaging; computing; environmental reconstruction;
D O I
10.1023/A:1008152423742
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
A recently discovered error in the part of the computer program WACALIB that implements maximum likelihood (ML) calibration has been discovered and corrected. The new version of WACALIB has been re-run with all the data-sets from which results based on the earlier version of WACALIB had been published. The new results suggest that ML regression and calibration perform as well or even better than weighted averaging (WA), at least when judged by the apparent root mean squared error. Further work involving cross-validation is required to evaluate more fully the relative performance of WA and ML approaches.
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页码:111 / 115
页数:5
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