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Solution: Bayesian parameter estimation
Thesis work by Jonah Bernhard
Quantifying properties of hot and dense QCD matter through
systematic model-to-data comparison,
Bernhard, et. al. PRC 91 (2015).
Applying Bayesian parameter estimation to relativistic heavy-ion
collisions: simultaneous characterization of the initial state and
quark-gluon plasma medium,
Bernhard, Moreland, Bass, Liu, and Heinz, PRC 94 (2016).
Methodology based on
Computer model calibration using
high-dimensional output,
Higdon, Gattiker, Williams, and Rightley,
J.Amer.Stat.Assoc. 103, 570 (2008).
Determining properties of matter created in
ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions,
Novak, et. al, PRC 89 (2014).
Used prominently in
Observation of gravitational waves from a
binary black hole merger,
LIGO and Virgo collaborations,
PRL 116 (2016).
Planck 2013 results. Cosmological
parameters,
Planck collaboration, Astron.Astrophys. 571
(2014).
J. S. Moreland (Duke U.) Nucleon substructure 20 / 50