March 18, 2014

Seven sigma?

The cosmologists are excited today, and there is data visualisation all over my Twitter feed

That’s a nice display of uncertainty at different levels of evidence, before (red) and after (blue) adding new data.  To get some idea of what is greater than zero and why they care, read the post by our upstairs neighbour Richard Easther (head of the Physics department)

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »