Statistical Challenges in Astronomy - Brossura

 
9781441930484: Statistical Challenges in Astronomy

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The quantity and quality of astronomical data has increased by orders of magnitude in recent years; similarly, statistical methodologies have also made great strides recently. This volume shows how powerful synergies emerge when astronomers and statisticians join in examining astrostatistical problems and approaches. Its principal theme is the statistical methods needed to model fundamental characteristics of the early universe on its largest scales.

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BAYESIAN METHODS // Statistical Challenges in Medieval (and Later) Astronomy / Power from Understanding the Shape of Measurement: Progress in Bayesian Inference for Astrophysics / Hierarchical Models, Data Augmentation, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo / Bayesian Adaptive Exploration / Bayesian Model Selection and Analysis for Cepheid Star Oscillations / Bayesian Multiscale Methods for Poisson Count Data // LARGE ASTRONOMICAL DATASETS // NASA's Astrophysics Data Environment / Statistical and Astronomical Challenges in the Sloan Digital Sky Survewy / Challenges for Cluster Analysis in a Virtual Observatory / COSMOLOGY // Statistics of Galaxy Clustering / Analyzing Large Data Sets in Cosmology / The Cosmic Foam: Stochastic Geometry and Spatial Clustering across the Universe / Statistics and the Cosmic Microwave Background / Inference in Microwave Cosmology: A Frequentist Perspective / Nonparametric Inference in Astrophysics // MULTIVARIATE CLUSTERING // Random Forests: Finding Quasars / Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis: A Case Study on Quasar Data / Computational Astrostatistics: Fast and Efficient Tools for Analyzing Huge Astronomical Data Sources / Clustering in High-Dimensional Data Spaces // TIME SERIES AND IMAGE ANALYSIS // Advanced Tools for Astronomical Time Series and Image Analysis / Frequency Estimation and Generalized Lomb-Scargle Periodograms / Multiscale Methods in Astronomy / Threshold Selection in Transform Shrinkage / The Statistical Challenges of Wavelet-Based Source Detection // SUMMARIES // Reflections on SCMA III / An Astronomer's Perspective on SCMA III // CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

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