In the first part of their discussion, Joe Silk and John Peacock compare approaches to statistics and how these bear on predictions in cosmology, including Weinberg’s prediction of the cosmological constant.
New Statistics and Prediction
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This discussion was conducted at Trinity College, Oxford, on May 12, 2016.
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