Gravitational Wave Detection and Data Analysis for Pulsar Timing Arrays

1. Introduction
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2. On Measuring the Gravitational-Wave Background Using Pulsar Timing Arrays
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3. Gravitational-Wave Memory and Pulsar Timing Arrays
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4. Placing Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background Using European Pulsar Timing Array Data
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5. Marginal Likelihood Calculation with MCMC Methods
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6. Summary for Non-experts
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