A probabilistic formulation for empirical population synthesis: Sampling methods and tests

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 325, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 60-76

  Cid Fernandes, Roberto ^a,b   Sodré Jr , Laerte ^c   Schmitt, Henrique R ^d,e   Leão, João R S ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^e NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: statistics; Galaxies: stellar content

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; GALAXIES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RECOVERY; SAMPLING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STARS; SURVEYS;

CLASSICAL PROBLEMS; EQUIVALENT WIDTH; GALAXIES: STATISTICS; GALAXY EVOLUTION; GALAXY:STELLAR CONTENT; POPULATION SYNTHESIS; PROBABILISTIC FORMULATION; SAMPLING METHOD; SAMPLING TEST; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0011262574     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04366.x     Document Type: Article

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