Timeline for answer to Is it OK to remove outliers from data? by PMar
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| Mar 10, 2016 at 11:56 | comment | added | Nick Cox | See also the authoritative account Christie. M. 2001. The Ozone Layer A Philosophy of Science Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P. | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 11:45 | comment | added | Nick Cox | This is a great story. and one much repeated, but to me math.uni-augsburg.de/stochastik/pukelsheim/1990c.pdf convincingly identifies it as a myth based on a misunderstanding. Note incidentally that as there are two poles, "the polar ozone layer" needs re-writing. | |
| Mar 9, 2016 at 2:06 | comment | added | Johnny | It would be good to include a reference to the incident: Why hadn't they discovered the phenomenon earlier? Unfortunately, the TOMS data analysis software had been programmed to flag and set aside data points that deviated greatly from expected measurements and so the initial measurements that should have set off alarms were simply overlooked. In short, the TOMS team failed to detect the ozone depletion years earlier because it was much more severe than scientists expected. | |
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| Mar 8, 2016 at 20:32 | history | answered | PMar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |