Bootstrapped intersecting remagnetization great circles and the subsequent empirical confidence region

Given the already documented bias in the determination of intersecting remagnetization great circles as a function of the parallelism of the circles, resulting in an elongated bias in that direction, we found that rotational symmetry assumptions around the intersection would seem to be insufficient....

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Autores: Gallo, Leandro César, Cristallini, Ernesto Osvaldo, Tomezzoli, Renata Nela
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/66411
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/66411
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:paleomagnetism
remagnetization great circles
moment of inertia analysis
geostatistics
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Sumario:Given the already documented bias in the determination of intersecting remagnetization great circles as a function of the parallelism of the circles, resulting in an elongated bias in that direction, we found that rotational symmetry assumptions around the intersection would seem to be insufficient.In this contribution, we address the intersection and its inherent bias by doing bootstrap. Repeated calculations explore possible outcomes numerically; elongated distributions of the bootstrapped intersections are regarded as biased. The method calculates a more realistic confidence region based on the empirical distribution of the bootstrapped intersections. A preliminary version of the program implementing the method described here is available from L. Gallo on request.