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Statistics for Astrophysics: Bayesian Methodology

Statistics for Astrophysics: Bayesian Methodology

Paperback

PhysicsProbability & Statistics

ISBN10: 2759822745
ISBN13: 9782759822744
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Jan 10 2018
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book includes the lectures given during the third session of the School of Statistics for Astrophysics that took place at Autrans, near Grenoble, in France, in October 2017. The subject is Bayesian Methodology.

The interest of this statistical approach in astrophysics probably comes from its necessity and its success in determining the cosmological parameters from observations, especially from the cosmic background fluctuations. The cosmological community has thus been very active in this field for many years. But the Bayesian methodology, complementary to the more classical frequentist one, has many applications in physics in general due to its ability to incorporate a priori knowledge into inference, such as uncertainty brought by the observational processes. The Bayesian approach becomes more and more widespread in the astrophysical literature.

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