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Title Astrostatistical challenges for the new astronomy / Joseph M. Hilbe, editor
Published New York, NY : Springer, ©2013

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Series Springer series in astrostatistics ; #1
Springer series in astrostatistics ; #1.
Contents Astrostatistics: A Brief History and View to the Future / Joseph M. Hilbe -- Bayesian Astrostatistics: A Backward Look to the Future / Thomas J. Loredo -- Understanding Better (Some) Astronomical Data Using Bayesian Methods / S. Andreon -- BEAMS: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff in Supernova Analysis / Martin Kunz, Renée Hlozek, Bruce A. Bassett, Mathew Smith and James Newling, et al. -- Gaussian Random Fields in Cosmostatistics / Benjamin D. Wandelt -- Recent Advances in Bayesian Inference in Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Thanks to the MultiNest Algorithm / Roberto Trotta, Farhan Feroz, Mike Hobson and Roberto Ruiz de Austri -- Extra-solar Planets via Bayesian Fusion MCMC / Philip C. Gregory -- Classification and Anomaly Detection for Astronomical Survey Data / Marc Henrion, Daniel J. Mortlock, David J. Hand and Axel Gandy -- Independent Component Analysis for Dimension Reduction Classification: Hough Transform and CASH Algorithm / Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay, Tanuka Chattyopadhyay, Tuli De and Saptarshi Mondal -- Improved Cosmological Constraints from a Bayesian Hierarchical Model of Supernova Type Ia Data / Marisa Cristina March, Roberto Trotta, Pietro Berkes, Glenn Starkman and Pascal Vaudrevange
Summary Astrostatistical Challenges for the New Astronomy presents a collection of monographs authored by several of the disciplines leading astrostatisticians, i.e. by researchers from the fields of statistics and astronomy-astrophysics having in interest in the statistical analysis of astronomical and cosmological data. Eight of the ten monographs are enhancements of presentations given by the authors as invited or special topics in astrostatistics papers at the ISI World Statistics Congress (2011, Dublin, Ireland). The opening chapter, by the editor, was adapted from an invited seminar given at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2011) on the history and current state of the discipline; the second chapter by Thomas Loredo was adapted from his invited presentation at the Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V conference (2011, Pennsylvania State University), presenting insights regarding frequentist and Bayesian methods of estimation in astrostatistical analysis. The remaining monographs are research papers discussing various topics in astrostatistics. The monographs provide the reader with an excellent overview of the current state astrostatistical research, and offer guidelines as to subjects of future research
Analysis Astronomy
Mathematical statistics
Statistical Theory and Methods
Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Title page from PDF; (SpringerLink; viewed on Dec. 13, 2012)
In Springer eBooks
Subject Statistical astronomy.
Astronomy.
Astronomical Phenomena
Astronomy
astronomy.
SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
Astronomía
Astronomía estadística
Statistical astronomy
Form Electronic book
Author Hilbe, Joseph M., 1944-
ISBN 9781461435082
1461435080
1283909707
9781283909709