
JOINT PARTICLE SEMINAR
Date: Friday, 5 September 2003
Time:
2:00 p.m.
Place: 4135 Frederick Reines Hall
Speaker: Louis Lyons, Oxford
Title: Bayes versus
Frequentism: the return of an old controversy
Abstract: It is possible to
spend a lifetime analyzing data without realizing that there are these
very contrasting approaches to the subject. This talk explains the differences,
and gives examples from Physics and from every-day life to illustrate cases
where they give different results.
Host: M. Bander