Advanced Statistical Methods for Astrophysical Probes of Cosmology (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)

This thesis explores advanced Bayesian statistical methods for extracting key information for cosmological model selection, parameter inference and forecasting from astrophysical observations. Bayesian model selection provides a measure of how good models in a set are relative to each other - but what if the best model is missing and not included in the set? Bayesian Doubt is an approach which addresses this problem and seeks to deliver an absolute rather than a relative measure of how good a model is. Supernovae type Ia were the first astrophysical observations to indicate the late time acceleration of the Universe - this work presents a detailed Bayesian Hierarchical Model to infer the cosmological parameters (in particular dark energy) from observations of these supernovae type Ia.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Springer Theses
Release date:	2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Marisa Cristina March
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	180
Edition:	2013 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-35059-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Cosmology & the universe
LSN:	3-642-35059-3
Barcode:	9783642350597

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