Posts tagged Bayesian

Flawed second LIGO gravitational wave discovery

In a previous post I listed the many problems associated with the LIGO team’s claim of having made the first direct observation of gravitational waves in history.  Now they have released a second claim that makes all but one of the problems with the initial claim seem irrelevant.  That problem is the methodology used to try to recover a signal from what is essentially unidentified and random background noise.  This “mystery noise” has continued to […]