Comments on: GLAST Workshop on June 21 at Science Ctr

By: hlee

hlee — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:07:41 +0000

I was going to add that. Too many subscripts and superscripts in addition to shorthands. Then, thought about tensors by astrophysicists (cosmologists). Later, I realized statisticians use “suppose,” “consider” and “assume” too often times.

By: vlk

vlk — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:24:33 +0000

I can’t speak for other astronomers, but I do think that statisticians use greek letters far too restrictively. A strict system is all well and good, but one quickly runs out of symbols that way. Which is why I suppose statisticians use so much shorthand, e.g., a Gaussian is N(0,1) rather than
g(x) = exp(-x^2/2)

By: hlee

hlee — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:10:15 +0000

I went the workshop thanks to my curiosity. One thing I noticed is that astronomers use lots of acronyms. I’m sure astronomers think statisticians use too many greet letters.