Cosmos At Least 250x Bigger Than Visible Universe, Say Cosmologists� - Technology Review

Cosmos At Least 250x Bigger Than Visible Universe, Say Cosmologists� - Technology Review: "The breakthrough that Vardanyan and pals have made is to find a way to average the results of all the data in the simplest possible way. The technique they use is called Bayesian model averaging and it is much more sophisticated than the usual curve fitting that scientists often use to explain their data...

Instead of asking how well the model fits the data, its asks a different question: given the data, how likely is the model to be correct. This approach is automatically biased against complex models--it's a kind of statistical Occam's razor.