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Author Hobson, Michael P

Title Bayesian Methods in Cosmology
Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (317 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Part I Methods; 1 Foundations and algorithms; 2 Simple applications of Bayesian methods; 3 Parameter estimation using Monte Carlo sampling; 4 Model selection and multi-model inference; 5 Bayesian experimental design and model selection forecasting; 6 Signal separation in cosmology; Part II Applications; 7 Bayesian source extraction; 8 Flux measurement; 9 Gravitational wave astronomy; 10 Bayesian analysis of cosmic microwave background data; 11 Bayesian multilevel modelling of cosmological populations
12 A Bayesian approach to galaxy evolution studies13 Photometric redshift estimation: methods and applications; Index
Summary Comprehensive introduction to Bayesian methods in cosmological studies, for graduate students and researchers in cosmology, astrophysics and applied statistics
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Subject Bayesian statistical decision theory.
Cosmology -- Statistical methods
Bayesian statistical decision theory
Form Electronic book
Author Jaffe, Andrew H
Liddle, Andrew R
Mukherjee, Pia
Parkinson, David
ISBN 9780511768477
0511768478