Mathematics – Probability
Scientific paper
Mar 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006e%26psl.243..400m&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 243, Issue 3-4, p. 400-408.
Mathematics
Probability
Scientific paper
In geochronology it is increasingly common to apply several methods to a set of samples. The task then arises of combining different types of data, with perhaps qualitatively different types of uncertainty, into a coherent age estimate which makes optimum use of the available information. In this paper we discuss a method which uses Bayesian reasoning to combine radiometric, stratigraphic, and paleomagnetic information when dating sediment layers. After presenting a general formulation, we derive an analytic formula for the probability distribution of the age of a sediment layer. We then apply this methodology to refine previous cosmogenic nuclide burial dating results for the age of a sediment layer containing a hominin fossil at Sterkfontein, South Africa.
Granger Darryl
Muzikar Paul
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