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Zhao Wen
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Affiliation: USTC Hefei China
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Dear friends:
Who can explain the meaning of binned data of CMB power spectra? How to get the binned data (mean value and the error bar) from the unbinned data? or introduce a paper for me? Thanks a lot! |
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Sarah Bridle
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Affiliation: University College London (UCL)
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| Posted: February 08 2008 |
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| I thought the binned data was just the weighted mean of the unbinned data (with the weighted mean error bar)? It certainly makes for a sensible looking plot.. |
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Zhao Wen
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
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Affiliation: USTC Hefei China
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Thank you very much! But, as we known, in the bined data, the error bar is much smaller than the unbined data. If is only the weighted mean, the error bar of binned data can not be obtained.
| Sarah Bridle wrote: | | I thought the binned data was just the weighted mean of the unbinned data (with the weighted mean error bar)? It certainly makes for a sensible looking plot.. |
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Anze Slosar
Joined: 24 Sep 2004
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Affiliation: Brookhaven National Laboratory
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| Posted: February 09 2008 |
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| Zhao Wen wrote: | Thank you very much! But, as we known, in the bined data, the error bar is much smaller than the unbined data. If is only the weighted mean, the error bar of binned data can not be obtained.
| Sarah Bridle wrote: | | I thought the binned data was just the weighted mean of the unbinned data (with the weighted mean error bar)? It certainly makes for a sensible looking plot.. |
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If you add 1/σ2 it should probably be good enough for most purposes...., i.e. 1/σbinned2 =  1/σi2 |
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Zhao Wen
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
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Affiliation: USTC Hefei China
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| Posted: February 13 2008 |
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Thank you very much! I have known it!
| Anze Slosar wrote: | | Zhao Wen wrote: | Thank you very much! But, as we known, in the bined data, the error bar is much smaller than the unbined data. If is only the weighted mean, the error bar of binned data can not be obtained.
| Sarah Bridle wrote: | | I thought the binned data was just the weighted mean of the unbinned data (with the weighted mean error bar)? It certainly makes for a sensible looking plot.. |
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If you add 1/σ2 it should probably be good enough for most purposes...., i.e. 1/σbinned2 = 1/σi2 |
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