Speaker
Lachlan Passenger
Description
Bayesian statistical methods form the foundation for signal extraction from gravitational-wave data. Commonly, these methods assume a functional form for the signal, and provide estimates for the function’s parameters. Gaussian processes allow for flexible modelling of signals, for which the functional form is unknown but the overall structure is. I’ll describe the kinds of problems that are well-suited to Gaussian processes, as well as several applications to gravitational-wave data.
