From 91d60c123ee210e772073ba28353d8c74ddf3286 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ejhigson <18406298+ejhigson@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 10:38:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] another ref added --- docs/paper/paper.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/paper/paper.md b/docs/paper/paper.md index a5ef145..6e47807 100644 --- a/docs/paper/paper.md +++ b/docs/paper/paper.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ bibliography: paper.bib # Summary Nested sampling [@Skilling2006] is a popular numerical method for calculating Bayesian evidences and generating posterior samples given some likelihood and prior. -The initial development of the algorithm was targeted at evidence calculation, but implementations such as ``MultiNest`` [@Feroz2008; @Feroz2009; @Feroz2013] and ``PolyChord`` [@Handley2015a; @Handley2015b] are now used extensively for parameter estimation in scientific research - see for example [@DESCollaboration2017]. +The initial development of the algorithm was targeted at evidence calculation, but implementations such as ``MultiNest`` [@Feroz2008; @Feroz2009; @Feroz2013] and ``PolyChord`` [@Handley2015a; @Handley2015b] are now used extensively for parameter estimation in scientific research - see for example [@Joudaki2016; @DESCollaboration2017; @Chua2018]. Nested sampling performs well compared to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)-based alternatives at exploring multimodal and degenerate distributions, and the ``PolyChord`` software is well-suited to high-dimensional problems. Dynamic nested sampling [@Higson2017b] is a generalisation of the nested sampling algorithm which dynamically allocates samples to the regions of the posterior where they will have the greatest effect on calculation accuracy. This allows order-of-magnitude increases in computational efficiency, with the largest gains for high dimensional parameter estimation problems.