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look-elsewhere effect: a standalone construct

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Statistics

the inflation of apparent significance when a signal is searched for across many possible locations, so a local excess overstates the global evidence.

In statistics, look-elsewhere effect refers to the inflation of apparent significance when a signal is searched for across many possible locations, so a local excess overstates the global evidence. This meaning comes from Gross (2010) in The European Physical Journal C.[1]

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References

Gross, E., & Vitells, O. (2010). Trial factors for the look elsewhere effect in high energy physics. The European Physical Journal C, 70(1-2), 525-530. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1470-8

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