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G. Jogesh Babu
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Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
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Eric D. Feigelson
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
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Table of contents (50 papers)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xviii
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General Methods in Astrostatistics
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- William H. Jefferys, Judit Györgyey Ries
Pages 49-65
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- Fionn Murtagh, Alex Aussem
Pages 123-133
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- Albert Bijaoui, Frédéric Rué, Renaud Savalle
Pages 173-184
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- Edward J. Wegman, Daniel B. Carr, R. Duane King, John J. Miller, Wendy L. Poston, Jeffrey L. Solka et al.
Pages 185-206
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Major Astronomical Projects
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Front Matter
Pages 207-207
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- T. S. Axelrod, C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. Alves, A. C. Becker, D. P. Bennett et al.
Pages 209-224
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- Bernard F. Schutz, David Nicholson
Pages 225-239
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- Aneta Siemiginowska, Martin Elvis, Alanna Connors, Peter Freeman, Vinay Kashyap, Eric Feigelson
Pages 241-257
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- F. van Leeuwen, D. W. Evans, M. B. van Leeuwen-Toczko
Pages 259-280
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Time Series Analysis
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Front Matter
Pages 281-281
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About this book
Modern astronomical research faces a vast range of statistical issues which have spawned a revival in methodological activity among astronomers. The Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy II conference, held in June 1996 at the Pennsylvania State University five years after the first conference, brought astronomers and statisticians together to discuss methodological issues of common interest. Time series analysis, image analysis, Bayesian methods, Poisson processes, nonlinear regression, maximum likelihood, multivariate classification, and wavelet and multiscale analyses were important themes. Astronomers frequently encounter troublesome situations such as heteroscedastic weighting of data, unevenly spaced time series, and selection effects leading to censoring and truncation. Many problems were introduced at the conference in the context of large-scale astronomical projects inlcuding LIGO, AXAF, XTE, Hipparcos, and digitized sky surveys.This volume will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in both fields-astronomers who seek exposure to recent developments in statistics, and statisticians interested in confronting new problems. It is edited by two faculty members of the Pennsylvania State University who have a long-standing cross-disciplinary collaboration and jointly authored the recent introductory monograph "Astrostatics." G.J. Babu is Professor of Statistics, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Statistical Planning & Inference and the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics. Eric D. Feigelson is Professor of Astronomoy and Astrophysics.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
G. Jogesh Babu
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
Eric D. Feigelson