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## Abstract

Nested sampling is an alternative Markov-chain Monte-Carlo technique for integrating and exploring probability distributions. With publicly available implementations such as MultiNest, PolyChord and dynesty, nested sampling has become widely adopted in astronomy as a powerful tool for computing Bayesian evidences and sampling challenging a-priori unknown parameter spaces. In this talk I will give a user's guide to the theory of nested sampling in the context of 21cm Bayesian model comparison and parameter estimation, a survey of the current state of the art and the future of the field. This will aim to provide theoretical background for the Bayesian inference techniques and algorithms underpinning the science of several other talks which focus on applying nested sampling to 21cm cosmology.
Nested sampling is an alternative Markov-chain Monte-Carlo technique for
integrating and exploring probability distributions. With publicly
available implementations such as MultiNest, PolyChord and dynesty,
nested sampling has become widely adopted in the fields of astronomy and
particle physics as a powerful tool for computing Bayesian evidences and
sampling challenging a-priori unknown parameter spaces.

In this talk I will give a user's guide to the theory of nested sampling
in the context of Bayesian model comparison and parameter estimation, a
survey of the current state of the art and the future of the field. I
will illustrate with examples from cosmological and inflationary model
comparison, primordial power spectrum reconstruction, 21cm cosmology,
exoplanets and particle physics, as well as recent work in machine
learning, Bayesian Neural Networks and likelihood-free inference.

[[PDF](https://github.com/williamjameshandley/talks/raw/adelaide_2020/will_handley_adelaide_2020.pdf)]
[[PDF](https://github.com/williamjameshandley/talks/raw/adelaide_2020/will_handley_adelaide_2020.pdf)]

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Cavendish Laboratory \\
University of Cambridge
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