September 29, 2011

Faster-than-light neutrinos.

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So. It turns out that there is a statistical angle to the recent report of neutrinos travelling faster than light, since it’s the assessment of uncertainty in the travel time and distance that is really at issue.  For a nice summary of the measurement issues from a card-carrying physicist and popular science writer, see Chad Orzel’s blog.

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »