Bayesian 'hyper-parameters' approach to joint estimation: The Hubble constant from CMB measurements

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 315, Issue 4, 2000, Pages

  Lahav, O ^a,b   Bridle, S L ^c   Hobson, M P ^c   Lasenby, A N ^c   Sodre Jr L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmology: observations; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBES;

BAYESIAN; COSMIC MICROWAVES BACKGROUND; COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; COSMOLOGICAL PROBES; COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; DATA SET; HUBBLE CONSTANT; HYPER-PARAMETER; JOINT ESTIMATION; METHODS:STATISTICAL;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 0002974244     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03633.x     Document Type: Article

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