Multimodal nested sampling: An efficient and robust alternative to Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for astronomical data analyses

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 384, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 449-463

  Feroz, F ^a   Hobson, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Methods: data analysis; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; EFFICIENCY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MODAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OBJECT DETECTION; SAMPLING; TOYS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ASTRONOMICAL DATA; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMPETING MODELS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO SAMPLINGS; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; MULTI-MODAL; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; SAMPLING METHOD;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 38849196929     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12353.x     Document Type: Article

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