Blind Analysis In Nuclear And Particle Physics

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Blind analysis in nuclear and particle physics. By contrast throughout most of their history nuclear and particle physics have run open experiments in which an estimate of the final answer is known well before the analysis is complete. During the past decade blind analysis has become a widely used tool in nuclear and particle physics measurements. A review of the blind analysis technique as used in particle physics measurements is presented. There is at least circumstantial evidence that such a bias has affected past measurements and.

Kept blind as to which patients are in the control sample the trials are thus doubly blind 2. Next the dangers of experimenter s bias and the advantages of a blind analysis are described. In each case the type of blind analysis is. Given a pair of single digit numbers written on a blackboard hans could add them together correctly nearly all of the time.

The history of blind analyses in physics is briefly discussed. Blind analysis a blind analysis is a measurement performed with out looking at the answer and is the optimal way to avoid experimenter s bias. Blind analysis in nuclear and particle physics blind analysis in nuclear and particle physics klein joshua r 2005 12 08 00 00 00 hans von osten who lived at the beginning of the twentieth century could do math. Three distinct kinds of blind analysis in particle physics are presented in detail.

A number of different blind analysis techniques have been used in particle physics in recent years. Abstract during the past decade blind analysis has become a widely used tool in nuclear and particle physics measurements.