MultiNest: An efficient and robust Bayesian inference tool for cosmology and particle physics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 398, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1601-1614

  Feroz, F ^a   Hobson, M P ^a   Bridges, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Methods: Data analysis; Methods: Statistical

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; INFERENCE ENGINES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL PHYSICS; TOYS;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; ERROR ESTIMATES; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; INFERENCE PROBLEM; INFERENCE TOOLS; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; MULTI-MODAL; MULTIPLE MODES; SAMPLING ALGORITHM;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 70349215183     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14548.x     Document Type: Article

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