The Central Limit Effect may or may not apply here. We are not random sampling from some fixed population. There may be some dependence from year to year. Other things may well be changing over time. Global warming, for example.
Jon Cryer At 11:16 AM 10/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:
3) thanks to the Central Limit Theorem, we can confidently predict that the monthly mean temperature, in one location, will be distributed Normally, for any given month, over many years. This approach was suggested by one person (sorry, I'm not up on references this am) who urged examination of one location with a frequency plot over a consistent time. Cheers, Jay -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. 4444 North Green Bay Road Racine, WI 53404-1216 USA Ph: (262) 634-9100 FAX: (262) 681-1133 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.a2q.com The A2Q Method (tm) -- What do you want to improve today? .. .. ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: .. http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
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