The power of Bayesian evidence in astronomy

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 413, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2895-2905

  Jenkins, C R ^a   Peacock, J A ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Methods: data analysis; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS;

BAYES FACTOR; BAYESIAN EVIDENCE; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; MODEL SELECTION; MODEL-BASED OPC; POWER; RATIO FACTORS; SIMPLE++; THRESHOLD-VALUE;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 79956215007     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18361.x     Document Type: Article

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