Look-elsewhere effect
= Look-elsewhere effect
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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.<Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC by ATLAS Collaboration>[Section 7]{ref}