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Look-elsewhere effect
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2026-10-18
Searching many possible
signal
locations
increases the chance of finding an apparently unusual fluctuation somewhere.
A
local
p-value
for
a
specified
location
differs from the global
p-value
for the search over
locations
.
[ref]
Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC by ATLAS Collaboration
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