Quantifying Suspiciousness within correlated data sets

ABSTRACT We propose a principled Bayesian method for quantifying tension between correlated data sets with wide uninformative parameter priors. This is achieved by extending the Suspiciousness statistic, which is insensitive to priors. Our method uses global summary statistics, and as such it can be...

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Published in:Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020-08, Vol.496 (4), p.4647-4653
Main Authors: Lemos, Pablo, Köhlinger, Fabian, Handley, Will, Joachimi, Benjamin, Whiteway, Lorne, Lahav, Ofer
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Language:English
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Summary:ABSTRACT We propose a principled Bayesian method for quantifying tension between correlated data sets with wide uninformative parameter priors. This is achieved by extending the Suspiciousness statistic, which is insensitive to priors. Our method uses global summary statistics, and as such it can be used as a diagnostic for internal consistency. We show how our approach can be combined with methods that use parameter space and data space to identify the existing internal discrepancies. As an example, we use it to test the internal consistency of the KiDS-450 data in four photometric redshift bins, and to recover controlled internal discrepancies in simulated KiDS data. We propose this as a diagnostic of internal consistency for present and future cosmological surveys, and as a tension metric for data sets that have non-negligible correlation, such as Large Synoptic Spectroscopic Survey and Euclid.
ISSN:0035-8711
1365-2966
DOI:10.1093/mnras/staa1836