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From data to phenomena and back again: computer-simulated signatures.

This paper draws attention to an increasingly common method of using computer simulations to establish evidential standards in physics. By simulating an actual detection procedure on a computer, physicists produce patterns of data ('signatures') that are expected to be observed if a sought-after phe...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 182; no. 1; pp. 117 - 130
Main Author: Tal, Eran
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Sep2011
Subjects:
Computer simulation
Data analysis
Physics research
Reliability (Personality trait)
Inference (Logic)
Superfluidity
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