Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder7.news.weretis.net!feeder5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Karl Ratzsch Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: Prior in Bayesian Parameter estimation Analysis Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 22:26:04 +0100 Organization: solani.org Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: <83070e29-016c-44e8-854a-5b9529c49c9c@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: solani.org 1544390766 5976 127.0.0.43 (9 Dec 2018 21:26:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 21:26:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:JN+vIJsa0GTsvoMgPLhxe58sORE= X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBwDAEBMCVXvBqHKL2HyF3rhTeMDrN17fSd+Zq4IgjG81TeVHQpkxF5yfSBgTnt3oaJRDi Content-Language: de-DE-1901 In-Reply-To: <83070e29-016c-44e8-854a-5b9529c49c9c@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:4116 Am 08.12.2018 um 11:19 schrieb Savin Beniwal: > Hi all > > Nowadays I'm working with Markov-chain-Mote-Carlo method to find cosmological parameters with the help of observational data. > > For this, I need to define the prior of each unknown parameters i.e. uniform or Gaussian prior. But I have a problem to choose prior to a particular parameter. Please help me, what thing/s allow me to choose a specific type of prior. I think you have the wrong newsgroup. Astrophysics?