From: Greg Aldering (aldering@panisse.lbl.gov)
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 07:50:56 PDT
>On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:32:00AM -0700, Greg Aldering wrote:
>> p15: "... However, these analyses used ..." --->
>> "... However, the main R98 analysis used ..."
>>
>> Here I may be changing your intent a little, as I don't recall
>> whether P99's Fit E was full or Baysian extinction correction. However,
>> it is important to draw the distinction between whether or not
>> the Baysian was used for the main analyses. It was in R98 but
>> used only as an example in P99.
>
>That's not my intent; that's Saul's intent. I'd rather see it your way,
>just blaming the Bayesian stuff on Adam, and that's how it was
>originally. Saul, however, wants to make sure it's clear that we also
>did this with our Fit E fit.
>
>Can you confirm whether or not we did it for real, or just estimated
>which way the confidence intervals would go? I'm guessing the latter,
>siince I don't ever recall seeing the confidence intervals of the right
>size if we did it for real. If so, then yeah we can't claim to have
>done that full analysis in P99. We should just say that the bias is
>discussed there.
Yes, we did a complete fit with the Baysian prior. I confirmed that it
was Fit E.
Perhaps you just need to tuck in an adjective or two that indicates
that we did it in one of our systematics check fits while R98 did it as
their primary fit.
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