The importance of statistics in high-energy physics
Friday, January 20, 2012 - 11:30
in Mathematics & Economics
If you remember, Mark Twain once said, There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. If you use statistics in an improper way, you could get pretty much any result, says Greg Landsberg, CMSs new physics coordinator. The role of the CMS Statistics Committee is to interpret what we see in a statistically correct way.