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Lab 4: Model Assessment

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Start Sept 14 –- Due Sept 19

Goals

In this lab, students will learn to:

  • Assess evidence for planets based on Transit Timing Variations (TTVs)

  • Assess the quality of a model that has been fit to data

  • Build a more complex model based on results of analysis with a simpler model

  • Fit a non-linear model to data

Students will strengthen their understanding of:

  • Transit timing variations

  • Residual analysis

  • Using named parameters/named tuples to reduce risk of programming errors

Logistics

Follow this link to create your own private copy of this lab's repository on GitHub.com. See the help on the course website for instructions on getting setup to use ACI, cloning, committing, pushing and submitting your work.

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