The implementation, interpretation, and justification of likelihoods in cosmology

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.05.002zbMath1390.83469OpenAlexW2610585408MaRDI QIDQ1752555

C. D. McCoy

Publication date: 24 May 2018

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.05.002

zbMATH Keywords

probabilitycosmologygeneral relativitytypicality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Physics (00A79)

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