Bayesian model selection and isocurvature perturbations

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-6

  Beltrán, María ^a,b   García Bellido, Juan ^a   Lesgourgues, Julien ^c,d   Liddle, Andrew R ^b   Slosar, Anže ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c LAPTH   (France)

^d SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BAYES THEOREM; COSMOS; DATA ANALYSIS; LUMINESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PARAMETER; PURIFICATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 18444386779     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.063532     Document Type: Article

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