https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1007.1727/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17236057urn:hackerpapers:mention:1007.1727:17236057Tue, 05 Jun 2018 09:14:47 GMT<p>Sure thing! In broad strokes, the most formal way (in our field&#x27;s typically frequentist paradigm) to calculate confidence/significance is to build a robust statistical model for your entire experiment (including the random effect that various uncertainties, etc will have on the outcome), and then to randomly synthesize many many outcomes of your experiment with respect to a given hypothesis. The outcome of each &quot;pseudoexperiment&quot; is boiled down to a single number, known as a test-statistic, and this way we can generate a distribution of that test statistic that gives you an idea of the…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1007.1727/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.data-an