Gravitational Lensing Accuracy Testing 2010 (GREAT10) Challenge Handbook

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2231-2263

  Kitching, Thomas ^a   Amara, Adam ^b   Gill, Mandeep ^c   Harmeling, Stefan ^a   Heymans, Catherine ^a   Massey, Richard ^d   Rowe, Barnaby ^e   Schrabback, Tim ^e   Voigt, Lisa ^f   Balan, Sreekumar ^g   Bernstein, Gary ^c   Bethge, Matthias ^h   Bridle, Sarah ^e   Courbin, Frederic ⁱ   Gentile, Marc ⁱ   Heavens, Alan ^a   Hirsch, Michael ^c   Hosseini, Reshad ^c   Kiessling, Alina ^a   Kirk, Donnacha ^e   Kuijken, Konrad ^d   Mandelbaum, Rachel ^j   Moghaddam, Baback ^k   Nurbaeva, Guldariya ⁱ   Paulin Henriksson, Stephane ^l   Rassat, Anais ^l   Rhodes, Jason ^k   Schölkopf, Bernhard ^c   Shawe Taylor, John ^e   Shmakova, Marina ^a   Taylor, Andy ^a   Velander, Malin ^d   van Waerbeke, Ludovic ^m   Witherick, Dugan ^e   Wittman, David ⁿ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^h Institute for Theoretical Physics   (Germany)

ⁱ EPFL   (Switzerland)

^j PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Cosmology; Imaging processing; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856208661     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AOAS484     Document Type: Article

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