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Science 4 June 1965:
Vol. 148. no. 3675, pp. 1283 - 1289
DOI: 10.1126/science.148.3675.1283
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Data Analysis and the Frontiers of Geophysics

More can be learned from data by wise use of spectrum analysis, choice of expression, and straggling values

John W. Tukey 1

1 Section of Mathematical Statistics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey

I have tried to talk about three areas in which I think newer techniques of data analysis will come into, or be developed in, geophysics which will advance our knowledge about the plasma-like, gaseous, liquid, and solid earth: (i) developments along the line of the concepts of the spectrum, with emphasis both on the use of cross-spectral methods of studying relationship and on bispectrum and higher methods of studying nonlinearities (including modulations) and frequency interactions; (ii) wise choice of modes of expression for analysis; (iii) the use of methods appropriate and effective in situations where distributions of errors and fluctuations do not have exactly the magic bell-shaped distribution.


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