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Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- 1.INTRODUCTION
- 2.MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY
- 3.PROFESSED FREQUENTISM VERSUS PRACTICED SUBJECTIVISM
- 3.1.HEP physicists ``are frequentist''
- 3.2.HEP physicists ``are Bayesian''
- 3.3.Intuitive application of Bayes' theorem
- 3.4.Bayes versus Monte Carlo
- 4.EXPLICIT USE OF BAYESIAN METHODS IN HEP
- 5.EXAMPLES OF MISLEADING RESULTS
INDUCED BY CONVENTIONAL STATISTICS
- 5.1.Claims of new physics based on p-values
- 5.2.What does a lower mass bound mean?
6.CONCLUSIONS
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