Articles
- Allowing for measurement error: a principled approach to peak bagging
Why doing the 284 Munros gives you only a 21% probability of having climbed all the significant Scottish hills over 3,000ft. A slightly improved version of the author's article in TAC36.
- The use of altimeters in height measurement
A scientific and statistical treatment of the sources of error in height measurements by altimeter. A procedure for correcting for temperature and barometric drift is described and tested in the hills. A shortened version, without the maths, was published in TAC43.
- The Munros: 1891-1997
A table showing changes in Munros and Tops since 1891, produced by Graham Jackson. Easier to use, we think, than the published "variorum". Colour formatting allows easy tracking of changes over the years.
Current version: 3.0 (11 January 2008)
- Database of British hills
A downloadable file with details of 3677 hills including Munros and Tops, Corbetts and Tops, Grahams, Marilyns, Murdos, Hewitts, Nuttalls, Donalds, Wainwrights and Deweys, with subs and deletions. Ten-figure grid references from GPS measurements are available for over 1600 hills, 522 of which have been surveyed. In Microsoft Access, Excel and ASCII. A collaboration with Graham Jackson.
Current version: 9.0 (22 December 2007)
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- An examination of Naismith's Rule
Postponed: a statistical analysis of hillwalkers' data to test the performance of Naismith's Rule in calculating the time taken to complete a walk, and examine alternative models.
The data were analysed in detail seven years ago but the best fitting models are not very intuitive. For those with a mathematical bent, results are available in Excel from the author.
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