The implementation, interpretation, and justification of likelihoods in cosmology
May, 201817 pages
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- Stud.Hist.Phil.Sci.B 62 (2018) 19-35
- Published: May, 2018
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
I discuss the formal implementation, interpretation, and justification of likelihood attributions in cosmology. I show that likelihood arguments in cosmology suffer from significant conceptual and formal problems that undermine their applicability in this context.- Cosmology
- Probability
- General relativity
- Typicality
- cosmological model
- data analysis method
- statistical analysis
- general relativity
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