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George Mason University’s endless inquiry
By Deep Climate A year ago, I first identified scholarship issues in the 2006 Wegman report, the contrarian touchstone commissioned by Republican congressman Joe Barton as part of his concerted...
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Wegman and Said 2011: Yet More Dubious Scholarship in Full Colour, part 1
Previous posts have examined scholarship issues in the Wegman Report and Wegman et al’s core flawed statistical analysis of the “hockey stick” graph. Now I show that a recent WIREs Computational...
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Wegman and Said 2011, part 2
I continue the previous discussion of unacknowledged antecedents in Color Theory and Design by Wegman and Said (WIREs Computational Statistics, 2011), and examine the second half of the article in...
View ArticleRetraction of Said, Wegman et al 2008, part 1
It’s been a long time coming, but there has now been an official finding in at least one of the complaints concerning the dubious scholarship of GMU professors Edward Wegman and Yasmin Said. According...
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Early climate contrarian reactions to the retraction of Said, Wegman et al 2008 have grasped at straws, holding that this does not affect the findings of the paper and the earlier Wegman report...
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Mining new depths in scholarship, part 1
I examine the opening chapter by Edward Wegman and Jeffrey Solka in the 2005 Handbook of Statistics: Data Mining and Data Visualization (C Rao, E Wegman and J Solka, editors). Sections 3 (The Computer...
View ArticleSaid and Wegman 2009: Suboptimal Scholarship
Today I present an analysis of a 2009 article by Yasmin Said and Edward Wegman of George Mason University. “Roadmap for Optimization” was published in the inaugural edition of WIREs Comp Stats, one of...
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GMU contradictory decisions on Wegman: Plagiarism in CSDA, but not in 2006...
[Updates, Feb. 23-24: I have added extensive discussion “below the fold”, starting with the section entitled GMU Process. The summary has been updated with additional links to side-by-side comparisons...
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Wiley cover-up: Complete Wegman and Said “redo” hides plagiarism and errors
I had thought the saga of climate science critic Edward Wegman and the various allegations of misconduct in his recent work could not possibly get any more bizarre, especially in the wake of manifestly...
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Wegman and Said leave Wiley journal and Said disappears from GMU
The saga of statistician turned climate science critic Edward Wegman and his protege Yasmin Said has taken yet another strange turn. The pair’s tenure as editors-in-chief at the Wiley journal they...
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