2 papers
astro-ph.IM2025
Exoplaneteers Keep Overestimating Sigma Significances
David Kipping, Björn Benneke
Astronomers, and in particular exoplaneteers, have a curious habit of expressing Bayes factors as frequentist sigma values. This is of course completely unnecessary and arguably ra…
astro-ph.IM2025
Exoplaneteers Keep Calling Plots "Allan Variance" Plots When They Aren't
David Kipping
I highlight that there is a substantial number of papers (at least 11 published since 2024) which all refer to a specific type of plot as an "Allan variance" plot, when in fact the…