January 19, 2021 – Kavli Institute Pre-Print Publications

Dark Matter Constraints from a Unified Analysis of Strong Gravitational Lenses and Milky Way Satellite Galaxies

Posted by klaurent January 19, 2021Stanford

Kavli Affiliate: Risa H. Wechsler | First 5 Authors: Ethan O. Nadler, Simon Birrer, Daniel Gilman, Risa H. Wechsler, Xiaolong Du | Summary: Joint analyses of small-scale cosmological structure probes are relatively unexplored and promise to advance measurements of microphysical dark matter properties using heterogeneous data. Here, we present a multidimensional analysis of dark matter […]

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Lessons from the German Tank Problem

Posted by klaurent January 19, 2021MIT

Kavli Affiliate: George Clark | Summary:During World War II the German army used tanks to devastating advantage. The Allies needed accurate estimates of their tank production and deployment. They used two approaches to find these values: spies, and statistics. This note describes the statistical approach. Assuming the tanks are labeled consecutively starting at 1, if […]

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Lessons from the German Tank Problem

Posted by klaurent January 19, 2021MIT

Kavli Affiliate: George Clark | First 5 Authors: George Clark, Alex Gonye, Steven J Miller, , | Summary: During World War II the German army used tanks to devastating advantage. The Allies needed accurate estimates of their tank production and deployment. They used two approaches to find these values: spies, and statistics. This note describes […]

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