index

  1. Open thread
  2. SDO launched
  3. [Jobs] postdoc position at UC Berkeley
  4. A short note on Probability for astronomers
  5. astronomy bibliography
  6. From Terence’s stuff: You want proof?
  7. arxiv list
  8. Erich Lehmann
  9. From Quantile Probability and Statistical Data Modeling
  10. some python modules
  11. Quotes from Common Errors in Statistics
  12. [ArXiv] Voronoi Tessellations
  13. Do people use Fortran?
  14. The chance that A has nukes is p%
  15. [ArXiv] classifying spectra
  16. Scatter plots and ANCOVA
  17. [MADS] logistic regression
  18. SINGS
  19. Boyle & Smith (1969)
  20. Goodness-of-fit tests
  21. [MADS] Kalman Filter
  22. data analysis system and its documentation
  23. To Become a Good Astronomer
  24. More on Space Weather
  25. [Books] Bayesian Computations
  26. [MADS] compressed sensing
  27. [ArXiv] component separation methods
  28. [MADS] ARCH
  29. [ArXiv] Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data
  30. [MADS] Kriging
  31. Beyond simple models-New methods for complex data
  32. 2010 SBSS STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION
  33. Magic Crystal
  34. [ArXiv] Cross Validation
  35. Yes we can
  36. Where is ciao X ?
  37. [MADS] Parallel Coordinates
  38. Another exciting news (with no use)
  39. News and related stories
  40. different views
  41. Astroinformatics
  42. worse than the Drake eq.
  43. Mt. Mathematics
  44. Wavelet-regularized image deconvolution
  45. how to trace?
  46. [MADS] Adaptive filter
  47. Curious Cases of the Null Hypothesis Probability
  48. [MADS] data depth
  49. [MADS] Law of Total Variance
  50. Bayesian machine learning workshop, featuring an astronomy application
  51. space weather
  52. Robust Statistics
  53. a century ago
  54. [ArXiv] Sparse Poisson Intensity Reconstruction Algorithms
  55. Datums
  56. Feynman and Statistics
  57. [Book] The Physicists
  58. [MADS] plug-in estimator
  59. Tricki
  60. July Workshop on Bayesian & Maximum Entropy Methods
  61. Poisson vs Gaussian, Part 2
  62. Poisson vs Gaussian
  63. [MADS] Chernoff face
  64. DOE Petascale Data Analysis Program
  65. Use and Misuse of Chi-square
  66. [Announce] Heidelberg Summer School
  67. [Announce] AstroStat Summer School at Penn State
  68. Web Seminar
  69. 4754 d.f.
  70. [Book] Elements of Information Theory
  71. iFish in the archive
  72. [MADS] Mahalanobis distance
  73. systematic errors
  74. Correlation is not causation
  75. An excerpt from …
  76. [ArXiv] Particle Physics
  77. Guinness, Gosset, Fisher, and Small Samples
  78. A book by David Freedman
  79. [MADS] Semiparametric
  80. [ArXiv] Special Issue from Annals of Applied Statistics
  81. Circumspect frequentist
  82. accessing data, easier than before but…
  83. Likelihood Ratio Technique
  84. Lost in Translation: Measurement Error
  85. MMIX
  86. [MADS] multiscale modeling
  87. Bipartisanship
  88. Wapedia
  89. [MADS] HMM
  90. Meet at January AAS meeting to organize a white paper for Astro2010
  91. Borel Cantelli Lemma for the Gaussian World
  92. [SPS] Testing Completeness
  93. It bothers me.
  94. after “Thanks to Henrietta Leavitt”
  95. “Thanks to Henrietta Leavitt”
  96. Astroart Survey
  97. Redistribution
  98. A confession from a former “keV” junkie (2. Meet Ms. Electron)
  99. read.table()
  100. missing data
  101. Whew
  102. GSL – GNU Scientific Library
  103. “planetariums and other foolishness”
  104. Killer App
  105. The Big Picture
  106. Off the line
  107. [tutorial] multispectral imaging, a case study
  108. When you register
  109. [Book] The Grammar of Graphics
  110. A Quote on Model
  111. survey and design of experiments
  112. Make3D
  113. [Q] Objectivity and Frequentist Statistics
  114. There and back again
  115. Quintessential Contributions
  116. Classification and Clustering
  117. A History of Markov Chain Monte Carlo
  118. BUGS
  119. [Book] pattern recognition and machine learning
  120. appealing eyes == powerful method
  121. Parametric Bootstrap vs. Nonparametric Bootstrap
  122. Why Gaussianity?
  123. LHC First Beam
  124. A Confession from a former “keV” Junkie: 1. It’s a Plague.
  125. A Conversation with Peter Huber
  126. An anecdote on entrophy
  127. Irksome
  128. WLOG
  129. NR, the 3rd edition
  130. PyIMSL
  131. A lecture note of great utility
  132. Blackbody Radiation [Eqn]
  133. Go Maroons!
  134. Magnitude [Eqn]
  135. Differential Emission Measure [Eqn]
  136. I Like Eq
  137. Background Subtraction, the Sequel [Eqn]
  138. keV vs keV [Eqn]
  139. loess and lowess and locfit, oh my
  140. The Banff Challenge [Eqn]
  141. SLAC Summer Institute
  142. chi-square distribution [Eqn]
  143. Reduced and Processed Data
  144. Kaplan-Meier Estimator (Equation of the Week)
  145. Survival Analysis: A Primer
  146. Poisson Likelihood [Equation of the Week]
  147. A test for global maximum
  148. All models are wrong, but some are useful
  149. Probability Plotting
  150. On the history and use of some standard statistical models
  151. Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets
  152. Open and Shut [Equation of the Week]
  153. Discontinuation of weekly [arXiv] series
  154. [ArXiv] 3rd week, June 2008
  155. my first AAS. VI. Normalization
  156. [Q] systematic error
  157. my first AAS. V. measurement error and EM
  158. my first AAS. IV. clustering
  159. GLAST
  160. Likelihood Ratio Test Statistic [Equation of the Week]
  161. [ArXiv] 2nd week, June 2008
  162. my first AAS. III. ANOVA
  163. my first AAS. II. maximum likelihood test
  164. Grating Dispersion [Equation of the Week]
  165. [ArXiv] 1st week, June 2008
  166. my first AAS. I. Regression
  167. Beta Profile [Equation of the Week]
  168. Q: Lowess error bars?
  169. [ArXiv] 4th week, May 2008
  170. Mexican Hat [EotW]
  171. [ArXiv] 3rd week, May 2008
  172. This week’s quote:
  173. Background Subtraction [EotW]
  174. Did they, or didn’t they?
  175. [ArXiv] 2nd week, May 2008
  176. Line Emission [EotW]
  177. A Data Miner’s Story
  178. R-[{Perl,Python}] Interface
  179. [ArXiv] 1st week, May 2008
  180. gamma function (Equation of the Week)
  181. [ArXiv] 5th week, Apr. 2008
  182. Equation of the Week: Confronting data with model
  183. The Flip Test
  184. tests of fit for the Poisson distribution
  185. [ArXiv] 4th week, Apr. 2008
  186. The LRT is worthless for …
  187. Is 8-sigma significant enough for you?
  188. [ArXiv] Ripley’s K-function
  189. [ArXiv] 3rd week, Apr. 2008
  190. AstroGrid Desktop Suite
  191. PCA
  192. Significance of 5 counts
  193. Lomb-Scargle periodograms in bioinformatics
  194. The Burden of Reviewers
  195. Kepler and the Art of Astrophysical Inference
  196. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Apr. 2008
  197. [ArXiv] use of the median
  198. Google Sky
  199. [ArXiv] 1st week, Apr. 2008
  200. [ArXiv] Pareto Distribution
  201. Quote of the Date
  202. Statistics is the study of uncertainty
  203. [ArXiv]4th week, Mar. 2008
  204. AstroStatistics School in India
  205. Prof. Brad Efron visits Harvard
  206. [ArXiv] 3rd week, Mar. 2007
  207. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Mar. 2008
  208. Eddington versus Malmquist
  209. Astrometry.net
  210. A quote on data analysis
  211. [ArXiv] 1st week, Mar. 2008
  212. [ArXiv] A fast Bayesian object detection
  213. The WMAP Five-Year Data Release
  214. [ArXiv] 4th week, Feb. 2008
  215. The GREAT08 Challenge
  216. [ArXiv] 3rd week, Feb. 2008
  217. Scientific Programmer for the Kepler Mission
  218. Everybody needs crampons
  219. Non-nested hypothesis tests
  220. [Quote] When all the models are wrong
  221. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Feb. 2008
  222. language barrier
  223. [ArXiv] 1st week, Feb. 2008
  224. AstroStatistics Summer School at Penn State ‘08
  225. [ArXiv] 5th week, Jan. 2008
  226. working together to tackle hard problems in astronomy
  227. Signal Processing and Bootstrap
  228. Books – a boring title
  229. [ArXiv] 4th week, Jan. 2008
  230. AstroStat special session at HEAD
  231. Dance of the Errors
  232. [ArXiv] 3rd week, Jan. 2008
  233. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Jan. 2007
  234. [Quote] Abstract – There are none.
  235. [Quote] The “Bible”
  236. [ArXiv] 1st week, Jan. 2008
  237. On-line Machine Learning Lectures and Notes
  238. [Quote] Bootstrap and MCMC
  239. The last [ArXiv] of 2007
  240. A bit of a mess
  241. [ArXiv] 3rd week, Dec. 2007
  242. [ArXiv] Astronomy Job Market in US
  243. ChandraBlog
  244. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Dec. 2007
  245. [ArXiv] Spatial Correlation in the Scan Statistic
  246. [ArXiv] The Importance of Being First: Position Dependent Citation Rates on arXiv:astro-ph
  247. [ArXiv] 1st week, Dec. 2007
  248. Too many syllables?
  249. [ArXiv] 5th week, Nov. 2007
  250. [ArXiv] 4th week, Nov. 2007
  251. [ArXiv] 3rd Week, Nov. 2007
  252. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Nov. 2007
  253. The Digital Universe
  254. [ArXiv] Post Model Selection, Nov. 7, 2007
  255. An example of chi2 bias in fitting the X-ray spectra.
  256. [ArXiv] 1st week, Nov. 2007
  257. [ArXiv] An unbiased estimator, May 29, 2007
  258. [ArXiv] 4th week, Oct. 2007
  259. compressed sensing and a blog
  260. The power of wavdetect
  261. Clay Public Lecture: Technology-driven Statistics
  262. [ArXiv] 3rd week, Oct. 2007
  263. ~ Avalanche(a,b)
  264. Quote of the Week, Oct 12, 2007
  265. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Oct. 2007
  266. “you are biased, I have an informative prior”
  267. [ArXiv] 1st week, Oct. 2007
  268. Implement Bayesian inference using PHP
  269. model vs model
  270. Polish AstroStatistics
  271. Provocative Corollary to Andrew Gelman’s Folk Theorem
  272. Quote of the Week, October 3, 2007
  273. Virtual Observatory
  274. [ArXiv] 4th week, Sept. 2007
  275. ab posteriori ad priori
  276. P Values: What They Are and How to Use Them
  277. [ArXiv] 3rd week, Sept. 2007
  278. When you observed zero counts, you didn’t not observe any counts
  279. Betraying your heritage
  280. Spurious Sources
  281. VOConvert (ConVOT)
  282. PHYSTAT-LHC 2007
  283. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Sept. 2007
  284. How to subscribe to the arXiv email list service
  285. Visualizing Astronomy
  286. [ArXiv] SVM and galaxy morphological classification, Sept. 10, 2007
  287. [ArXiv] Bimodal Color Distribution in GCS, Sept. 7, 2007
  288. [ArXiv] Recent bayesian studies from astro-ph
  289. [ArXiv] CMB statistics, Sept. 7, 2007
  290. [ArXiv] Swift and XMM measurement errors, Sep. 8, 2007
  291. Wrong Priors?
  292. Beyond Google Sky
  293. BEHR update
  294. [ArXiv] Identifiability and mixtures of distributions, Aug. 3, 2007
  295. [ArXiv] Google Sky, Sept. 05, 2007
  296. Arrogant?
  297. 2 Stats papers on astro-ph today
  298. [ArXiv] NGC 6397 Deep ACS Imaging, Aug. 29, 2007
  299. [ArXiv] Decision Tree, Aug. 31, 2007
  300. Quote of the Week, Aug 31, 2007
  301. [ArXiv] Numerical CMD analysis, Aug. 28th, 2007
  302. The future of Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
  303. Quote of the Week, Aug 23, 2007
  304. [ArXiv] Isochrone database, Aug. 20, 2007
  305. Mmm.. donuts
  306. Cross-validation for model selection
  307. An alternative to MCMC?
  308. [ArXiv] Data-Driven Goodness-of-Fit Tests, Aug. 1, 2007
  309. [ArXiv] Poisson Mixture, Aug. 16, 2007
  310. [ArXiv] Gamma-ray albedo of the moon, Aug. 15, 2007
  311. Coverage issues in exponential families
  312. Astrostatistics: Goodness-of-Fit and All That!
  313. [ArXiv] GRB host galaxies, Aug. 10, 2007
  314. [Quote] Changing my mind (again)
  315. [Quote] Model Skeptics
  316. Change Point Problem
  317. “They let you in now?”
  318. [ArXiv] Geneva-Copenhagen Survey, July 13, 2007
  319. Quote of the Week, August 2, 2007
  320. Quote of the Week, July 26, 2007
  321. [ArXiv] SDSS DR6, July 23, 2007
  322. [ArXiv] Three Classes of GRBs, July 21, 2007
  323. Photometric Redshifts
  324. Quote of the Week, July 19, 2007
  325. [ArXiv] Data Visualization, July 17, 2007
  326. [ArXiv] Bayesian Star Formation Study, July 13, 2007
  327. [ArXiv] Random Matrix, July 13, 2007
  328. [ArXiv] Complete Catalog of GRBs from BeppoSAX, July 13, 2007
  329. [ArXiv] Matching Sources, July 11, 2007
  330. Quote of the Week, July 12, 2007
  331. What is so special about chi square in astronomy?
  332. Summarizing Coronal Spectra
  333. A Trip Back in Time and Space
  334. Quote of the Week, July 5, 2007
  335. [ArXiv] Spectroscopic Survey, June 29, 2007
  336. Quote of the Week, June 27, 2007
  337. [ArXiv] Classical confidence intervals, June 25, 2007
  338. [ArXiv] Kernel Regression, June 20, 2007
  339. Quote of the Week, June 20, 2007
  340. [ArXiv] Solar Cycle, June 18, 2007
  341. [ArXiv] Correlation Studies, June 12, 2007
  342. [ArXiv] A Lecture Note, June 17, 2007
  343. Data Doctors
  344. Quote of the Week, June 12, 2007
  345. VOstat
  346. Bend it like Poisson
  347. Everything you wanted to know about power-laws but were afraid to ask
  348. GLAST Workshop on June 21 at Science Ctr
  349. Quote of the Week, June 5, 2007
  350. All your bias are belong to us
  351. John Rice’s Visit (2nd week of June)
  352. Quote of the Week, May 29, 2007
  353. On the unreliability of fitting
  354. Categories
  355. Quote of the Week, May 22, 2007
  356. An excerpt from “A Conversation with Leo Breiman”
  357. Is 3sigma the same as 3*1sigma?
  358. Learning R
  359. Statistics Jargon for Astronomers
  360. Recent Astrostatistics
  361. AstroStatistics Summer School at PSU
  362. FITS to ASCII
  363. Learning Python