Original sentence: 85 and 106).However, the report concluded that these weakenesses did not undermine MBH findings, in particular because other studies more, or less, confirm MBH's general conclusions.In particular the report:.The report agreed that there were statistical and data selection weakness in the MBH analysis.cautioned against the seemingly inappropriate estimation methods of calculating confidence intervals in MBH (p.g.. MBH’s bristlecone pines, p 50).noted the low (emulated) MBH r2 statistic, and recommended the use of r2 and CE to cross-validate MBH and other proxy modeling (p91, p.recommended against the use of MBH’s particular method of principal components analysis (p.recommended that reconstructions avoid using shredded bark proxy’s (e
Edited sentence: The report agreed that there were statistical shortcomings in the MBH analysis, but concluded that they were small in effect