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Old 09-June-2006, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Thanatos
Nereid is in good company - for example:

No Periodicities in 2dF Redshift Survey Data
Authors: E. Hawkins, S.J. Maddox, M.R. Merrifield (University of Nottingham)
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0208117

Redshift Data and Statistical Inference
Authors: Newman, William I.; Haynes, Martha P.; Terzian, Yervant
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/c...pJ...431..147N
Good company doesn't mean being right, though. Bell et al. explain in their paper how selection of the data points is correctly carried out.

Cheers.