Tag: statistics

  • Should you get excited by your data? Let the Look-Elsewhere Effect decide

    Should you get excited by your data? Let the Look-Elsewhere Effect decide

    A dangerous beast is hiding in today’s searches for the rare signs of new physics — or even “old” physics, such as the Higgs boson — at the Large Hadron Collider.

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  • Higgs and statistics blogpost by Jon Butterworth

    This is a well-written piece exploring the need for more data and what possible interpretations there could be: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/life-and-physics/2011/aug/06/1

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