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World Service,7 mins

Missing Planes

More or Less

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This is an edited version of this programme. Senior analyst Colleen Keller, from Metron Inc in the US, tells More or Less how her team used Bayesian statistics to help locate the wreckage of Air France flight 447 from Brazil to France which disappeared in 2009. This niche form of statistical modelling has been used to find everything from submarines to missing people.

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