Consider t distribution in place of normal

Conte-Ecology / conteStreamTemperature

Package for cleaning and analyzing stream daily stream temperature

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Consider t distribution in place of normal #24

Open djhocking opened 9 years ago

djhocking commented 9 years ago

Consider replacing the normal distribution with the t distribution for the temperature measurements because the t distribution has longer tails which better accommodate outliers. The degrees of freedom (nu) can be estimated from the data.

http://doingbayesiandataanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/07/its-getting-warmer-in-wisconsin.html