Any thoughts on this?
>>"Double Galaxy Redshifts and the Statistics of Small Numbers"
W. I. Newman, M. P. Haynes, and Y. Terzian
Astrophysical Journal 344: 111-114, 1989 September 1
Tifft claimed that observations of double galaxies
reveal a 72 km s^{-1} periodicity. Sharp showed that
the "periodicities" in the observations are completely
consistent with the statistics of small numbers. Here
we show that Tifft's statistical procedure would ascribe
a periodicity to small sets of Gaussian random noise.
We conclude by showing that in order to satisfy the
null hypothesis that the observations are *not*
samples drawn from a normal population would [sic]
require the acquisition of at least an order of
magnitude more data.<<
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