Limitations of Bayesian Evidence applied to cosmology

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 388, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1314-1320

  Efstathiou, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmological parameters; Cosmology observations; Cosmology: methods: data analysis; Cosmology: theory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY;

BAYESIAN EVIDENCE; BAYESIAN TECHNIQUES; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANTS; COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; COSMOLOGY: METHOD: DATA ANALYSE; COSMOLOGY: THEORY; DARK ENERGY; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; MODEL SELECTION;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 48049111183     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13498.x     Document Type: Article

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