Sentence examples for be a statistical fluctuation from inspiring English sources

The one-year spike in suicides could be a statistical fluctuation, they say, and not the start of a trend.

It could be a statistical fluctuation, or it could be a result of better data collection in recent years.

They asked him to explain another notation on the same piece of paper that read "5 standard deviations 99.99994%." "The criterion for the discovery of the Higgs boson had to be 5 standard deviations, which means it's extremely unlikely to be a statistical fluctuation," Frampton explained.

Today, however, the same two teams reported that, with more data, those signs appear slightly weaker, suggesting that they could be a statistical fluctuation in the "background" produced by decays of familiar particles.

The experimenters estimate that there is a less than a quarter of 1 percent chance their bump is a statistical fluctuation, making it what physicists call a three-sigma result, enough to attract attention but not enough to claim an actual discovery.

His original estimate of the probability that the observation was a statistical fluctuation was one in a billion.

I stood up and protested that this implied that one out of every twenty reports of some positive effect was a statistical fluctuation.

The discovery of the Higgs boson reported in July 2012 was at the 5-sigma level for two independent experiments, implying an overall probability that the effect was a statistical fluctuation of about one in 10 trillion.

Art counted up all the experiments being done, all the plots being looked at, all the bins on the plots, all the combinations of particles for which invariant masses were being measured, and came up with a rule that has been at least informally in use since: the probability of the bump being a statistical fluctuation must be less than 1 in 10,000.

The P-values of the case-control studies might have been a statistical fluctuation by chance owing to the nature of random sampling, dependent on the sample size and the low minor allele frequency of C79G.

It is based generally on the minimum number of jumps that is required to get from one distribution to another, where a jump is a statistical fluctuation typical of a finite sample from the distribution.