# Significant\_terms JLH scientific paper

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/significant-terms-jlh-scientific-paper/228655>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 18, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/significant-terms-jlh-scientific-paper/228655 "2020-04-18T15:31:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![crab86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@crab86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/crab86)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/significant-terms-jlh-scientific-paper/228655/1 "2020-04-18T15:31:17Z")

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Does anybody know if there is a scientific paper describing JLH as a statistical significance method? I did not find any document describing what JLH actually does - although i looked it up in the source code already. I was wondering if there simply is no such paper available or if JLH is just an elasticsearch name for another know statistical method? And by the way, what does JLH stand for?

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/significant-terms-jlh-scientific-paper/228655/2 "2020-04-18T17:02:20Z")

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Hi Sebastian,

> [@crab86](#):
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> Does anybody know if there is a scientific paper

There was some analysis and follow-up comments [here](http://blog.comperiosearch.com/blog/2015/06/10/how-elasticsearch-calculates-significant-terms/)

> [@crab86](#):
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> And by the way, what does JLH stand for?

I named it after my daughter - it’s her initials.

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**Author:** ![crab86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@crab86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/crab86)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/significant-terms-jlh-scientific-paper/228655/3 "2020-04-18T20:38:58Z")

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Thanks a lot - and now I know why I couldn’t find the abbreviation anywhere 😃

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/significant-terms-jlh-scientific-paper/228655/4 "2020-05-16T20:38:58Z")

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