The Challenge and Potential of Likelihood-Free Inference in Cosmology

The Challenge and Potential of Likelihood-Free Inference in Cosmology

Mar 28, 2011, 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Chad Schafer, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Statistics
Statistical inference of cosmological quantities of interest is complicated by significant observational limitations, including heteroscedastic measurement error and irregular selection effects. These observational difficulties exacerbate challenges posed by the often-complex relationship between estimands and the distribution of observables; indeed, in some situations it is only possible to...