In the first part of their discussion, Pedro Ferreira and Jerome Martin talk about the variety of inflationary models. They discuss methods for distinguishing between them based on evidence and describe the application of Bayesian statistics to inflation.
An Encyclopedia of Inflation
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This discussion was conducted at the University of Oxford on March 15, 2017.
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