CosmoCoffee

Hi all,

My apologies, if this is trivial to figure out, but I failed to find the number degrees of freedom used in my cosmoMc runs. I also could not find mention in the Planck XVI paper.

Is there any file that states the dof specifically (or number of data points, and parameters used so I could infer myself)?

I am currently running the October 2013 version. I am using the vanilla parameters (flat LCDM), with Planck+WP, without ACT or SPT.

If it is of importance to answer the question I use in the ini file:

DEFAULT(batch1/CAMspec_defaults.ini)
DEFAULT(batch1/lowl.ini)
DEFAULT(batch1/lowLike.ini)
DEFAULT(batch1/common_batch1.ini)

(apologies if I am missing any critical information, I am a new-be to cosmomc)

The Planck likelihoods are not all normalized to match a chi-square value (e.g. low-L is actually negative), so I'm not sure it's a very well defined question/answer.

Would it make sense, then, to do AIC (Akaike information criterion) and BIC (Bayesian information criterion) comparisons between results when using different data sets and adding parameters?
For BIC, e.g, I would need the number of data points used.

Where can I find the number of data points used for fitting Planck+WP including low-L?

I encounter the same problem to find the degrees of freedom when using Planck data set. I tried to find the number of data points, but fail to find it in papers released by Planck.