PHYS 321 Data Science and Observational Astrophysics

3 credits · Physics · Faculty of Science · Offered: Winter

Data analysis methods as applied in experimental physics, with an emphasis on applications in observational astrophysics. An introduction to Bayesian inference, model selection, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, common probability distributions, jackknives and null tests, as they are used in the analysis of…

Prerequisites

COMP 208; PHYS 257 Students with sufficient knowledge of computer programming do not need to have taken COMP 208

Prerequisite courses: COMP 208, PHYS 257

Corequisites

PHYS 241; PHYS 258

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