In the recent SIAM Review, vol 54, No 3, pp 597-606, Robert Vanderbei
does a nice analysis of daily temperature data. This uses publicly
available data. A version of the paper is available at
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.0624
and there is a presentation at
http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/tex/talks/GERAD/LocalWarming.pdf
This would make a nice case for a vignette showing how to do such an
analysis in R, possibly as a project for a senior undergraduate or
perhaps even at the Master's level if some tools were developed, since
Vanderbei presents a good argument for using Least Absolute Deviations
regression (LAD). Generally LAD is overlooked by statisticians, maybe
because the tools are unfamiliar.
I'm willing to kibbitz on a vignette if there's interest somewhere.
John Nash
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