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Re:Dear Professor by dev1n on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @12:49PM (#6841833)
The discovery of the Higgs Boson was based on a 5-sigma outlier if my memory serves correctly.
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Re:Dear Professor by drjesusphd on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @01:17PM (#6842021)
What 5-sigma means in that context is it would take a 5-sigma outlier to explain the observations by chance alone.
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Re:Dear Professor by dev1n on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @05:55PM (#6843803)
Okay. That actually makes much more sense. Thank you.
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