The Jeffreys-Lindley paradox and discovery criteria in high energy physics¶
Cousins, R. D. (2017). The Jeffreys-Lindley paradox and discovery criteria in high energy physics. Synthese.
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- Jeffreys-Lindley Paradox
- . Particle physics — the paradox is raised as a criticism of the fixed 5σ discovery threshold, since a significance level fixed regardless of the amount of data does not cope with growing samples; the convention itself grew from early bump hunts in which the bump's location was not specified in advance, and is defended by past 3σ and 4σ effects that went away, the look-elsewhere effect and systematics
This sourceArgues that the Jeffreys-Lindley paradox bears on discovery criteria in high energy physics and traces the 5σ convention to look-elsewhere concerns in early bump hunts.
- . Particle physics — the paradox is raised as a criticism of the fixed 5σ discovery threshold, since a significance level fixed regardless of the amount of data does not cope with growing samples; the convention itself grew from early bump hunts in which the bump's location was not specified in advance, and is defended by past 3σ and 4σ effects that went away, the look-elsewhere effect and systematics
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