Open AccessAuthors' reply to a comment on ‘An objective method for smoothing palaeomagnetic data’
Author(s) -
Clark R. M.,
Thompson R.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
geophysical journal of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.302
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1365-246X
pISSN - 0016-8009
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-246x.1980.tb04297.x
Subject(s) - declination , smoothing , geology , theme (computing) , earth's magnetic field , stability (learning theory) , mode (computer interface) , field (mathematics) , set (abstract data type) , data set , statistical analysis , value (mathematics) , computer science , geophysics , statistics , mathematics , machine learning , magnetic field , physics , quantum mechanics , astronomy , pure mathematics , programming language , operating system
Summary. King & Rees (1979), in commenting on our paper (Clark & Thompson 1978), have raised a number of subjects beyond the main theme of our paper. We described a statistical method of smoothing noisy data and illustrated its application using a set of previously published palaeomagnetic declination data. King & Rees acknowledge our success in achieving the main aim of our paper, namely the construction of objective confidence limits for the smooth curve presumed to underlie the data. However, they seem to question the value of our general technique of data‐analysis when used to estimate past variations in the geomagnetic field. As they interpose in their comments on our statistical analyses references to ‘techniques of sedimentary analysis’, ‘inclination errors’, ‘mode of acquisition of remanence’ and ‘stability tests’, we take the opportunity to discuss these additional topics as well as those relating to our original paper.