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volume = {98},
year = {2018}
}
@article{Joudaki2016,
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
arxivId = {1601.05786},
author = {Joudaki, Shahab and Blake, Chris and Heymans, Catherine and Choi, Ami and Harnois-Deraps, Joachim and Hildebrandt, Hendrik and Joachimi, Benjamin and Johnson, Andrew and Mead, Alexander and Parkinson, David and Viola, Massimo and van Waerbeke, Ludovic},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/stw2665},
eprint = {1601.05786},
issn = {0035-8711},
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
number = {May 2018},
pages = {2033--2052},
title = {{CFHTLenS revisited: assessing concordance with Planck including astrophysical systematics}},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2665},
volume = {2052},
year = {2016}
}
@misc{zenododypolychord,
author = {Higson, Edward},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1328175},
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# Summary

Nested sampling [@Skilling2006] is a popular numerical method for calculating Bayesian evidences and generating posterior samples given some likelihood and prior.
The initial development of the algorithm was targeted at evidence calculation, but implementations such as ``MultiNest`` [@Feroz2008; @Feroz2009; @Feroz2013] and ``PolyChord`` [@Handley2015a; @Handley2015b] are now used extensively for parameter estimation in scientific research - see for example [@Joudaki2016; @DESCollaboration2017; @Chua2018].
The initial development of the algorithm was targeted at evidence calculation, but implementations such as ``MultiNest`` [@Feroz2008; @Feroz2009; @Feroz2013] and ``PolyChord`` [@Handley2015a; @Handley2015b] are now used extensively for parameter estimation in scientific research (and in particular in astrophysics); see for example [@DESCollaboration2017; @Chua2018].
Nested sampling performs well compared to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)-based alternatives at exploring multimodal and degenerate distributions, and the ``PolyChord`` software is well-suited to high-dimensional problems.

Dynamic nested sampling [@Higson2017b] is a generalisation of the nested sampling algorithm which dynamically allocates samples to the regions of the posterior where they will have the greatest effect on calculation accuracy. This allows order-of-magnitude increases in computational efficiency, with the largest gains for high dimensional parameter estimation problems.
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