Centre de Physique Théorique

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Vendredi 19 mai 2017

14h00 – 15h00, Amphi 5 du CPT

CMB Anomalies : New physics or statistical fluke ?

Marcos Cruz, Universidad de Cantabria

I will review some statistical caveats in order to interpret the Cosmic Microwave Background anomalies listed in the "PLANCK 2015 results XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB" paper. As a particular example I will describe the statistical analysis performed on the Cold Spot. Finally, I briefly discuss Bayesian model comparison as an interesting alternative to standard hypothesis testing.

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