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Benjamin Joachimi (Institute for Astronomy, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh)
Tuesday 23 October 2012, 16:30-17:30
Back to Normal â Box-Cox Transformations in Cosmology
- đ¤ Speaker: Benjamin Joachimi (Institute for Astronomy, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh)
- đ Date & Time: Tuesday 23 October 2012, 16:30 - 17:30
- đ Venue: Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory
Abstract
Box-Cox transformations are a widely used Gaussianisation tool in various research areas, which has received little attention in astrophysics so far. I am going to present two recent cosmological applications of Box-Cox transformations. They were used to Gaussianise the weak lensing projected mass distribution, as a generalisation of the currently en-vogue logarithmic transformations, with the goal of maximising the information contained in two-point statistics. Moreover I will present work on the generalisation of Fisher matrices by means of Box-Cox transformations in order to produce predictions of arbitrary posterior distributions and discuss the potential of this ansatz to construct statistically independent parameter sets for arbitrary inference problems.
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