Bayesian `Hyper-Parameters' Approach to Joint Estimation: The Hubble Constant from CMB Measurements
arXiv:astro-ph/9912105 · doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03633.x
Abstract
Recently several studies have jointly analysed data from different cosmological probes with the motivation of estimating cosmological parameters. Here we generalise this procedure to take into account the relative weights of various probes. This is done by including in the joint χ^2 function a set of `Hyper-Parameters', which are dealt with using Bayesian considerations. The resulting algorithm (in the case of uniform priors on the log of the Hyper-Parameters) is very simple: instead of minimising \sum χ_j^2 (where χ_j^2 is per data set j) we propose to minimise \sum N_j \ln (χ_j^2) (where N_j is the number of data points per data set j). We illustrate the method by estimating the Hubble constant H_0 from different sets of recent CMB experiments (including Saskatoon, Python V, MSAM1, TOCO and Boomerang).
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