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The history of misuses of statistics is as long as the history of statistics itself. The following is a personal assessment about such misuses in our field, climate research. Some people might find my subjective essay of the matter unfair and not balanced. This might be so, but an effective drug sometimes tastes bitter.
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von Storch, H. (1999). Misuses of Statistical Analysis in Climate Research. In: von Storch, H., Navarra, A. (eds) Analysis of Climate Variability. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03744-7_2
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