Speakers
Andrew Caruana
(STFC)
Andrew Nelson
(Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation)
Description
Whilst Bayesian approaches are now common for estimating posterior distributions (to understand parameter uncertainty), data analyses that obtain the Bayesian evidence term for model selection (which of model A or B is a better way of treating the data?) are much scarcer. Nested sampling is a Bayesian statistical technique for estimating this evidence term, as well as being able to estimate the parameter posterior distribution.
