I called sigma support line and they gave mixed opinions. From Wordnik.com. [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] Reference
"Three sigma" is a manufacturing concept used to control processes, a concept that I am intimately familiar with. From Wordnik.com. [Blogrolling: A Mini-Me?] Reference
Usually we demand five sigma, that is five standard deviations from the peak, to claim “discovery.”. From Wordnik.com. [Bump Hunting (Part 2)] Reference
This significance is 3.8 sigma, which is comparable to the UTfit difference, although in a totally different process. From Wordnik.com. [New Physics in Heavy Flavors: The plot thickens « Imaginary Potential] Reference
F, requiring it to be closed under complementation and countable union; it is then called a sigma field (or sigma algebra) on Ω. From Wordnik.com. [Interpretations of Probability] Reference
Summers quoted at Marginal Revolution rationalized by talking about the gender ratios at 3.5-4 sigma, which is above the 99.9th percentile. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » So Lawrence Summers Was Fired For Being Correct?] Reference
A search for althouse + the one term you knew, "sigma," would have easily found Inside sigma Phi House. From Wordnik.com. [Not another photo puzzle.] Reference
In other words, some read "sigma", some read "rho", and the reader is caught in the cross-fire of an inane technicality. From Wordnik.com. [Piacenza Liver and Transliteration Hanky-Panky] Reference
That is, in Greek, when a "sigma" (Σ) appears in lowercase at the end of a word, it uses a different letter. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
So called sigma to send it in. From Wordnik.com. [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] Reference
Also know What is six sigma and other business terms. From Wordnik.com. [ERP Software Selection] Reference
First to observe mass splitting of charged sigma hyperons. From Wordnik.com. [Goldhaber, Sulamith.] Reference
"Main control's predicting three-sigma," Wilson answered. From Wordnik.com. [Genellan- Planetfall]
ZARRELLA: His sigma 7 capsule orbited the Earth six times. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 3, 2007] Reference
We get it, we know what an 8.2 sigma “evidence” means. From Wordnik.com. [Guest Post: Juan Collar on Dark Matter Detection] Reference
Today was the ep. where Eddie tries to get into the sigma club. From Wordnik.com. [chsturtle Diary Entry] Reference
I can compute all the elements of a sigma curve in nothing flat. From Wordnik.com. [Masters Of The Vortex]
There is evidence for a modulation in the data at 8.2 sigma, stop. From Wordnik.com. [Guest Post: Juan Collar on Dark Matter Detection] Reference
But I think that is even more of a stretch than our two-sigma excess. From Wordnik.com. [Another Higgs bump? Not so fast…] Reference
Renata Jora (Syracuse) “Linear sigma model with two chiral nonets”. From Wordnik.com. [A Crazy Physics Week I - The Syracuse-Cornell Joint Theory Meeting] Reference
And to put them in civilian courts would fundamentally remove that sigma. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2006] Reference
The more sigma away from the peak, the less likely it is that it happens. From Wordnik.com. [Bump Hunting (Part 2)] Reference
In 1/6 if the cases, then, it will be more than one sigma on the high side. From Wordnik.com. [Bump Hunting (Part 2)] Reference
If they are 2 sigma error bars, then SMD has the 95% confidence interval correct. From Wordnik.com. [Another Poll: Huckabee Not Second In Florida] Reference
We for the most part are the same except for the 6 sigma whackos in every country. From Wordnik.com. [legitgov] Reference
Muted thunder spent itself harmlessly against the sigma-fields that sheltered him. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
I stick around until the sigma curve, extrapolated to zero time, matches one of my bombs. From Wordnik.com. [Masters Of The Vortex]
This corresponded to a "10 sigma," or ten-times-the-typical deviation from the mean event. From Wordnik.com. [The Inflation Solution to the Housing Mess] Reference
For a gold-plated, five-sigma-significance discovery, my money is on the LHC, I have to say. From Wordnik.com. [Closing in on the Higgs Boson] Reference
NARDELLI: It would have been a huge mistake to come in and start using sic sigma (ph) jargon. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2003] Reference
I did go out and shake my groove-thang at my favorite fraternity, sigma pi, on Saturday night. From Wordnik.com. [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference
He laughed, then went down the hall whistling something complicated and Mozartian. eighteen sigma. From Wordnik.com. [The Moor]
It depends, of course, if these are 1 sigma (68% confidence) or 2 sigma (95% confidence) error bars. From Wordnik.com. [Another Poll: Huckabee Not Second In Florida] Reference
They seem to be very accident prone and all these “six sigma” events seem to happen to them regularly. From Wordnik.com. [What Went Down At Rackspace Yesterday? A Power Outage And Some Backup Failures.] Reference
Ominously, after dipping close to 5 sigma after the Bear Stearns crisis, the gap has crept back above 6 sigma. From Wordnik.com. [The Inflation Solution to the Housing Mess] Reference
Statistically, 2 or 3 sigma is a very unusual event suggesting, in this case, an unusually strong preference for riskless T-bills. From Wordnik.com. [The Inflation Solution to the Housing Mess] Reference
Yet another phenomenon: unimaginative, sigma-phi wanna-be Carson Daly and his inexplicable rise to superstardom and cable domination. From Wordnik.com. [luvabeans Diary Entry] Reference
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