index

  1. The Big Picture
  2. Off the line
  3. [tutorial] multispectral imaging, a case study
  4. When you register
  5. [Book] The Grammar of Graphics
  6. A Quote on Model
  7. survey and design of experiments
  8. “Thanks to Henrietta Leavitt”
  9. Make3D
  10. [Q] Objectivity and Frequentist Statistics
  11. There and back again
  12. Quintessential Contributions
  13. Classification and Clustering
  14. A History of Markov Chain Monte Carlo
  15. BUGS
  16. [Book] pattern recognition and machine learning
  17. appealing eyes == powerful method
  18. Parametric Bootstrap vs. Nonparametric Bootstrap
  19. Why Gaussianity?
  20. LHC First Beam
  21. A Confession from a former “keV” Junkie: 1. It’s a Plague.
  22. A Conversation with Peter Huber
  23. An anecdote on entrophy
  24. Irksome
  25. WLOG
  26. NR, the 3rd edition
  27. PyIMSL
  28. A lecture note of great utility
  29. Blackbody Radiation [Eqn]
  30. Go Maroons!
  31. Magnitude [Eqn]
  32. Differential Emission Measure [Eqn]
  33. I Like Eq
  34. Background Subtraction, the Sequel [Eqn]
  35. keV vs keV [Eqn]
  36. loess and lowess and locfit, oh my
  37. The Banff Challenge [Eqn]
  38. SLAC Summer Institute
  39. chi-square distribution [Eqn]
  40. Reduced and Processed Data
  41. Kaplan-Meier Estimator (Equation of the Week)
  42. Survival Analysis: A Primer
  43. Poisson Likelihood [Equation of the Week]
  44. A test for global maximum
  45. All models are wrong, but some are useful
  46. Probability Plotting
  47. On the history and use of some standard statistical models
  48. Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets
  49. Open and Shut [Equation of the Week]
  50. Discontinuation of weekly [arXiv] series
  51. [ArXiv] 3rd week, June 2008
  52. my first AAS. VI. Normalization
  53. [Q] systematic error
  54. my first AAS. V. measurement error and EM
  55. my first AAS. IV. clustering
  56. GLAST
  57. Likelihood Ratio Test Statistic [Equation of the Week]
  58. [ArXiv] 2nd week, June 2008
  59. my first AAS. III. ANOVA
  60. my first AAS. II. maximum likelihood test
  61. Grating Dispersion [Equation of the Week]
  62. [ArXiv] 1st week, June 2008
  63. my first AAS. I. Regression
  64. Beta Profile [Equation of the Week]
  65. Q: Lowess error bars?
  66. [ArXiv] 4th week, May 2008
  67. Mexican Hat [EotW]
  68. [ArXiv] 3rd week, May 2008
  69. This week’s quote:
  70. Background Subtraction [EotW]
  71. Did they, or didn’t they?
  72. [ArXiv] 2nd week, May 2008
  73. Line Emission [EotW]
  74. A Data Miner’s Story
  75. R-[{Perl,Python}] Interface
  76. [ArXiv] 1st week, May 2008
  77. gamma function (Equation of the Week)
  78. [ArXiv] 5th week, Apr. 2008
  79. Equation of the Week: Confronting data with model
  80. The Flip Test
  81. tests of fit for the Poisson distribution
  82. [ArXiv] 4th week, Apr. 2008
  83. The LRT is worthless for …
  84. Is 8-sigma significant enough for you?
  85. [ArXiv] Ripley’s K-function
  86. [ArXiv] 3rd week, Apr. 2008
  87. AstroGrid Desktop Suite
  88. PCA
  89. Significance of 5 counts
  90. Lomb-Scargle periodograms in bioinformatics
  91. The Burden of Reviewers
  92. Kepler and the Art of Astrophysical Inference
  93. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Apr. 2008
  94. [ArXiv] use of the median
  95. Google Sky
  96. [ArXiv] 1st week, Apr. 2008
  97. [ArXiv] Pareto Distribution
  98. Quote of the Date
  99. Statistics is the study of uncertainty
  100. [ArXiv]4th week, Mar. 2008
  101. AstroStatistics School in India
  102. Prof. Brad Efron visits Harvard
  103. [ArXiv] 3rd week, Mar. 2007
  104. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Mar. 2008
  105. Eddington versus Malmquist
  106. Astrometry.net
  107. A quote on data analysis
  108. [ArXiv] 1st week, Mar. 2008
  109. [ArXiv] A fast Bayesian object detection
  110. The WMAP Five-Year Data Release
  111. [ArXiv] 4th week, Feb. 2008
  112. The GREAT08 Challenge
  113. [ArXiv] 3rd week, Feb. 2008
  114. Scientific Programmer for the Kepler Mission
  115. Everybody needs crampons
  116. Non-nested hypothesis tests
  117. [Quote] When all the models are wrong
  118. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Feb. 2008
  119. language barrier
  120. [ArXiv] 1st week, Feb. 2008
  121. AstroStatistics Summer School at Penn State ‘08
  122. [ArXiv] 5th week, Jan. 2008
  123. working together to tackle hard problems in astronomy
  124. Signal Processing and Bootstrap
  125. Books - a boring title
  126. [ArXiv] 4th week, Jan. 2008
  127. AstroStat special session at HEAD
  128. Dance of the Errors
  129. [ArXiv] 3rd week, Jan. 2008
  130. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Jan. 2007
  131. [Quote] Abstract - There are none.
  132. [Quote] The “Bible”
  133. [ArXiv] 1st week, Jan. 2008
  134. On-line Machine Learning Lectures and Notes
  135. [Quote] Bootstrap and MCMC
  136. The last [ArXiv] of 2007
  137. A bit of a mess
  138. [ArXiv] 3rd week, Dec. 2007
  139. [ArXiv] Astronomy Job Market in US
  140. ChandraBlog
  141. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Dec. 2007
  142. [ArXiv] Spatial Correlation in the Scan Statistic
  143. [ArXiv] The Importance of Being First: Position Dependent Citation Rates on arXiv:astro-ph
  144. [ArXiv] 1st week, Dec. 2007
  145. Too many syllables?
  146. [ArXiv] 5th week, Nov. 2007
  147. [ArXiv] 4th week, Nov. 2007
  148. [ArXiv] 3rd Week, Nov. 2007
  149. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Nov. 2007
  150. The Digital Universe
  151. [ArXiv] Post Model Selection, Nov. 7, 2007
  152. An example of chi2 bias in fitting the X-ray spectra.
  153. [ArXiv] 1st week, Nov. 2007
  154. [ArXiv] An unbiased estimator, May 29, 2007
  155. [ArXiv] 4th week, Oct. 2007
  156. compressed sensing and a blog
  157. The power of wavdetect
  158. Clay Public Lecture: Technology-driven Statistics
  159. [ArXiv] 3rd week, Oct. 2007
  160. ~ Avalanche(a,b)
  161. Quote of the Week, Oct 12, 2007
  162. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Oct. 2007
  163. “you are biased, I have an informative prior”
  164. [ArXiv] 1st week, Oct. 2007
  165. Implement Bayesian inference using PHP
  166. model vs model
  167. Polish AstroStatistics
  168. Provocative Corollary to Andrew Gelman’s Folk Theorem
  169. Quote of the Week, October 3, 2007
  170. Virtual Observatory
  171. [ArXiv] 4th week, Sept. 2007
  172. ab posteriori ad priori
  173. P Values: What They Are and How to Use Them
  174. [ArXiv] 3rd week, Sept. 2007
  175. When you observed zero counts, you didn’t not observe any counts
  176. Betraying your heritage
  177. Spurious Sources
  178. VOConvert (ConVOT)
  179. PHYSTAT-LHC 2007
  180. [ArXiv] 2nd week, Sept. 2007
  181. How to subscribe to the arXiv email list service
  182. Visualizing Astronomy
  183. [ArXiv] SVM and galaxy morphological classification, Sept. 10, 2007
  184. [ArXiv] Bimodal Color Distribution in GCS, Sept. 7, 2007
  185. [ArXiv] Recent bayesian studies from astro-ph
  186. [ArXiv] CMB statistics, Sept. 7, 2007
  187. [ArXiv] Swift and XMM measurement errors, Sep. 8, 2007
  188. Wrong Priors?
  189. Beyond Google Sky
  190. BEHR update
  191. [ArXiv] Identifiability and mixtures of distributions, Aug. 3, 2007
  192. [ArXiv] Google Sky, Sept. 05, 2007
  193. Arrogant?
  194. 2 Stats papers on astro-ph today
  195. [ArXiv] NGC 6397 Deep ACS Imaging, Aug. 29, 2007
  196. [ArXiv] Decision Tree, Aug. 31, 2007
  197. Quote of the Week, Aug 31, 2007
  198. [ArXiv] Numerical CMD analysis, Aug. 28th, 2007
  199. The future of Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
  200. Quote of the Week, Aug 23, 2007
  201. [ArXiv] Isochrone database, Aug. 20, 2007
  202. Mmm.. donuts
  203. Cross-validation for model selection
  204. An alternative to MCMC?
  205. [ArXiv] Data-Driven Goodness-of-Fit Tests, Aug. 1, 2007
  206. [ArXiv] Poisson Mixture, Aug. 16, 2007
  207. [ArXiv] Gamma-ray albedo of the moon, Aug. 15, 2007
  208. Coverage issues in exponential families
  209. Astrostatistics: Goodness-of-Fit and All That!
  210. [ArXiv] GRB host galaxies, Aug. 10, 2007
  211. [Quote] Changing my mind (again)
  212. [Quote] Model Skeptics
  213. Change Point Problem
  214. “They let you in now?”
  215. [ArXiv] Geneva-Copenhagen Survey, July 13, 2007
  216. Quote of the Week, August 2, 2007
  217. Quote of the Week, July 26, 2007
  218. [ArXiv] SDSS DR6, July 23, 2007
  219. [ArXiv] Three Classes of GRBs, July 21, 2007
  220. Photometric Redshifts
  221. Quote of the Week, July 19, 2007
  222. [ArXiv] Data Visualization, July 17, 2007
  223. [ArXiv] Bayesian Star Formation Study, July 13, 2007
  224. [ArXiv] Random Matrix, July 13, 2007
  225. [ArXiv] Complete Catalog of GRBs from BeppoSAX, July 13, 2007
  226. [ArXiv] Matching Sources, July 11, 2007
  227. Quote of the Week, July 12, 2007
  228. What is so special about chi square in astronomy?
  229. Summarizing Coronal Spectra
  230. A Trip Back in Time and Space
  231. Quote of the Week, July 5, 2007
  232. [ArXiv] Spectroscopic Survey, June 29, 2007
  233. Quote of the Week, June 27, 2007
  234. [ArXiv] Classical confidence intervals, June 25, 2007
  235. [ArXiv] Kernel Regression, June 20, 2007
  236. Quote of the Week, June 20, 2007
  237. [ArXiv] Solar Cycle, June 18, 2007
  238. [ArXiv] Correlation Studies, June 12, 2007
  239. [ArXiv] A Lecture Note, June 17, 2007
  240. Data Doctors
  241. Quote of the Week, June 12, 2007
  242. VOstat
  243. Bend it like Poisson
  244. Everything you wanted to know about power-laws but were afraid to ask
  245. GLAST Workshop on June 21 at Science Ctr
  246. Quote of the Week, June 5, 2007
  247. All your bias are belong to us
  248. John Rice’s Visit (2nd week of June)
  249. Quote of the Week, May 29, 2007
  250. On the unreliability of fitting
  251. Categories
  252. Quote of the Week, May 22, 2007
  253. An excerpt from “A Conversation with Leo Breiman”
  254. Is 3sigma the same as 3*1sigma?
  255. Learning R
  256. Statistics Jargon for Astronomers
  257. Recent Astrostatistics
  258. AstroStatistics Summer School at PSU
  259. Learning Python
  260. FITS to ASCII
  261. Learning Python