Forecasting the Bayes factor of a future observation

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 378, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 819-824

  Trotta, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology: cosmic microwave background; Cosmology: cosmological parameters; Methods: data analysis; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

BAYES FACTOR; COSMOLOGY: COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND; COSMOLOGY: COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; FUTURE OBSERVATIONS; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; MODEL SELECTION; POSTERIOR ODDS; POWER; SPECTRAL INDICES;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 34250633049     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11861.x     Document Type: Article

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