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Advanced Statistical Methods for Astrophysical Probes of Cosmology

  • Nominated by the astrophysics group of Imperial College, London as best dissertation of 2011
  • The work presented in this thesis constitutes a major leap forward in the field of supernova cosmology
  • Opens the way to more accurate and robust constraints on dark energy properties
  • Stands out for the sophistication of the statistical approach adopted
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Introduction

    • Marisa Cristina March
    Pages 1-5
  3. Cosmology Background

    • Marisa Cristina March
    Pages 7-35
  4. Dark Energy and Apparent Late Time Acceleration

    • Marisa Cristina March
    Pages 37-44
  5. Supernovae Ia

    • Marisa Cristina March
    Pages 45-55
  6. Statistical Techniques

    • Marisa Cristina March
    Pages 57-74
  7. Bayesian Parameter Inference for SNe Ia Data

    • Marisa Cristina March
    Pages 95-148
  8. Summary and Conclusions

    • Marisa Cristina March
    Pages 173-174
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 175-177

About this book

This thesis explores advanced Bayesian statistical methods for extracting key information for cosmological model selection, parameter inference and forecasting from astrophysical observations. Bayesian model selection provides a measure of how good models in a set are relative to each other - but what if the best model is missing and not included in the set? Bayesian Doubt is an approach which addresses this problem and seeks to deliver an absolute rather than a relative measure of how good a model is. Supernovae type Ia were the first astrophysical observations to indicate the late time acceleration of the Universe - this work presents a detailed Bayesian Hierarchical Model to infer the cosmological parameters (in particular dark energy) from observations of these supernovae type Ia.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , University of Sussex, Astronomy Centre, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Marisa Cristina March

About the author

Marisa Cristina March is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Univeristy of Sussex, and was formerly a postgraduate cosmology student at Imperial College working with Dr Roberto Trotta, in the field of dark energy science.

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