For now I'm going to have to just estimate m, then we'll determine whether this method is honestly worth considering over an OLR and whether its worth it to use a nonlinear regression package.
Still have questions though. I understand getting an estimate for alpha. But I don't understand...
well the goal is to try to replicate the analysis presented in the document as closely as possible to test whether it offers significant improvement over a OLR.
Alright, I think I'm in over my head here. I've gone ahead and attached the PDF describing the process I am trying to repeat, which does not seem to require deriving any relationship between the uncertainties and the variable of interest. I was overlooking the bulk of the process actually. I...
I think most of what you are saying makes sense, but it is still not clear to me (remember, very little statistical background) what exactly I need to do to do the multivariate regression. I understand the OLR simply because I have a stats book that has written out the equation to get the slope...
As promised, I am back...
First off, just fyi, the correlation between the two datasets I have is 0.96
I have been trying to digest this a bit more today, and have actually been mulling over a document from a company that has done what I am trying to do...their description arrives at just...
Thanks for the in-depth replies! I may have more questions once I dive back into this problem, for now I have other more pressing issues to take care of at work.
I have temperature data from two different sites, and I want to develop a relationship for temperature between those two sites. In that way, if I have temperature at just one of those sites, I can approximate the temperature at the other site. My question is whether or not a multivariate...
exactly...you cant' just take one city, see a warming trend, and claim that it holds across the entire planet. I do think global temperatures are rising, but focusing on one city is not the way to prove your point.