27 September 2010 to 1 October 2010
CSIR Convention Centre
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

Chi-square, Maximum Likelihood and Bayes: a simple example

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CSIR Convention Centre

CSIR Convention Centre

CSIR, Pretoria
Presentation Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Speaker

Mr Michiel De kock (University of Stellenbosch)

Description

Given a histogram of measurements, we compare the chi-squared goodness-of-fit test and the Kullback-Leibler divergence of different models. We then apply these methods for parameter estimation and relate them to the principle of Maximum Likelihood. These non-Bayesian approaches are finally viewed in the light of a Bayesian solution.

Primary author

Mr Michiel De kock (University of Stellenbosch)

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