Tag Archives: LHC

The joy of statistics

Also at the Guardian. Last weekend both Jon and I wrote the same blog at the same time (well, the same time for Jon in London as it was for me in Chicago). This wouldn’t be very surprising if the … Continue reading

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W and double W

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 5.4 of Smashing Physics.

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Higgs hunting – what happens next?

Unlike, for example, most things Ben Goldacre writes about, lives don’t hang in the balance. But many of the same issues apply – statistical confidence, systematic bias, blinding of experiments and so on. Real knowledge about the fundamental nature of the … Continue reading

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Exclusion limits: The Higgs boson fights back

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 5.7 of Smashing Physics.

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