Marginalised Normal Regression: Unbiased curve fitting in the presence of x-errors
The history of the seemingly simple problem of straight line fitting in the presence of both $x$ and $y$ errors has been fraught with misadventure, with statistically ad hoc and poorly tested methods abounding in the literature. The problem stems from the emergence of latent variables describing the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Maynooth Academic Publishing
2023-11-01
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| Series: | The Open Journal of Astrophysics |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.21105/astro.2309.00948 |