# Cosmological discordances: A new measure, marginalization effects, and application to geometry versus growth current data sets

@article{Lin2017CosmologicalDA,
title={Cosmological discordances: A new measure, marginalization effects, and application to geometry versus growth current data sets},
author={Weikang Lin and Mustapha Ishak},
journal={Physical Review D},
year={2017},
volume={96},
pages={023532}
}
• Published 15 May 2017
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The continuous progress toward more precise cosmological surveys and experiments has galvanized recent interest into consistency tests on cosmological parameters and models. At the heart of this effort is quantifying the degree of inconsistency between two or more cosmological data sets. We introduce an intuitive moment-based measure we call the \textit{index of inconsistency} (IOI) and show that it is sensitive to the separation of the means, the size of the constraint ellipsoids, and their…

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