Cosmological Parameter Estimation from CMB Experiments

Abstract

I review the general aspects of cosmological parameter estimation from observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies in the framework of inflationary adiabatic models. The most recent CMB datasets are starting to give good constraints on the relevant parameters of inflationary adiabatic models. They point toward a model consistent with the basic predictions of inflation: a nearly flat universe, with a nearly scale invariant spectrum of primordial fluctuation.