Richard Dawid (MCMP) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (29 April, 2015) titled "Bayesian Perspectives on the Higgs Search". Abstract: The history of the Higgs discovery is characterized by a specific constellation: trust in the existence of a Higgs particle was very strong already before the particle's discovery. This raises the issue of a Bayesian perspective on data analysis in high energy physics in an interesting way that differs from other contexts in the field where the deployment of Bayesian strategies was proposed.
