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		<title>[ArXiv] 4th week, May 2008</title>
		<link>http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/arxiv-4th-week-may-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hlee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bayesian]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight astro-ph papers and two statistics paper are listed this week. One statistics paper discusses detecting filaments and the other talks about maximum likelihood estimation of satellite images (clouds). 

[astro-ph:0805.3532] Balan and Lahav
ExoFit: Orbital Parameters of Extra-solar Planets from Radial Velocities (MCMC)
[astro-ph:0805.3983] R. G. Carlberg et al.
Clustering of supernova Ia host galaxies (Jackknife method is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eight astro-ph papers and two statistics paper are listed this week. One statistics paper discusses detecting filaments and the other talks about maximum likelihood estimation of satellite images (clouds). <span id="more-323"></span></p>
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<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3532">[astro-ph:0805.3532]</a> Balan and Lahav<br />
<strong>ExoFit: Orbital Parameters of Extra-solar Planets from Radial Velocities</strong> (MCMC)</p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3983">[astro-ph:0805.3983]</a> R. G. Carlberg et al.<br />
<strong>Clustering of supernova Ia host galaxies</strong> (Jackknife method is utilized).</p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4005">[astro-ph:0805.4005]</a> Kurek, Hrycyna, &#038; Szydlowski<br />
<strong>From model dynamics to oscillating dark energy parametrisation</strong> (Bayes factor)</p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4136">[astro-ph:0805.4136]</a> C. Genovese et al.<br />
<strong>Inference for the Dark Energy Equation of State Using Type Ia Supernova Data</strong> </p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4141">[math.ST:0805.4141]</a> C. Genovese et al.<br />
<strong>On the path density of a gradient field</strong> (detecting filaments via kernel density estimation, KDE)</p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4342">[astro-ph:0805.4342]</a> C. Espaillat et al.<br />
<strong>Wavelet Analysis of AGN X-Ray Time Series: A QPO in 3C 273?</strong></p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4414">[astro-ph:0805.4414]</a> Tegmark and Zaldarriaga<br />
<strong>The Fast Fourier Transform Telescope</strong> </p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4417">[astro-ph:0805.4417]</a> A. Georgakakis et al.<br />
<strong>A new method for determining the sensitivity of X-ray imaging observations and the X-ray number counts</strong></p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4598">[stat.AP:0805.4598]</a> E. Anderes et al.<br />
<strong>Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Cloud Height from Multi-Angle Satellite Imagery</strong>
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		<title>[ArXiv] 2nd week, May 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 14:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hlee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no particular opening remark this week. Only I have profound curiosity about jackknife tests in [astro-ph:0805.1994]. Including this paper, a few deserve separate discussions from a statistical point of view that shall be posted.

[astro-ph:0805.1290]R. Barnard, L. Shaw Greening, U. Kolb
A multi-coloured survey of NGC 253 with XMM-Newton: testing the methods used for creating luminosity [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s no particular opening remark this week. Only I have profound curiosity about jackknife tests in <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1944">[astro-ph:0805.1994]</a>. Including this paper, a few deserve separate discussions from a statistical point of view that shall be posted.<span id="more-306"></span></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1290">[astro-ph:0805.1290]</a>R. Barnard, L. Shaw Greening, U. Kolb<br />
<strong>A multi-coloured survey of NGC 253 with XMM-Newton: testing the methods used for creating luminosity functions from low-count data</strong> </p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1469">[astro-ph:0805.1469]</a> Philip J. Marshall et al.<br />
<strong>Automated detection of galaxy-scale gravitational lenses in high resolution imaging data</strong></p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1470">[astro-ph:0805.1470]</a> E. P. Kontar, E. Dickson, J. Kasparova<br />
<strong>Low-energy cutoffs and in electron spectra of solar flares: statistical survey</strong> (It is not statistically rigorous but the topic can be connected to dip tests or gap tests in statistics)</p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1936">[astro-ph:0805.1936]</a> J. Yee &#038; B. Gaudi<br />
<strong>Characterizing Long-Period Transiting Planets Observed by Kepler</strong> (discusses uncertainty in light curves and Fisher matrix)</p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1944">[astro-ph:0805.1994]</a> the QUad collaboration: C. Pryke et al.<br />
<strong>Second and third season QUaD CMB temperature and polarization power spectra</strong> (What is jackknife tests? A brief scan of the paper does not register with my understanding of jackknifing. It looks more close to cross validation. Another slog topic shall come: bootstrap, cross validation, jackknife, and resampling.)</p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2121">[astro-ph:0805.2121]</a> N. Cole et al.<br />
<strong>Maximum Likelihood Fitting of Tidal Streams With Application to the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Tails</strong></p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2155">[astro-ph:0805.2155]</a> J Yoo &#038; M Zaldarriaga<br />
<strong>Improved estimation of cluster mass profiles from the cosmic microwave background</strong></p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2207">[astro-ph:0805.2207]</a> A.Vikhlinin et al.<br />
<strong>Chandra Cluster Cosmology Project II: Samples and X-ray Data Reduction</strong> (it mentions calibration uncertainty and background, can it be a reference to stacking, coadding, source detection, etc?)</p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2325">[astro-ph:0805.2325]</a> J.M. Loh<br />
<strong>A valid and fast spatial bootstrap for correlation functions</strong></p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2326">[astro-ph:0805.2326]</a> T. Wickramasinghe, M. Struble, J. Nieusma<br />
<strong>Observed Bimodality of the Einstein Crossing Times of Galactic Microlensing Events</strong>
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		<title>[ArXiv] 4th week, Feb. 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hlee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arXiv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bimodality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CMB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exoplanet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this posting, I added lecture notes on cosmic microwave background (CMB) and  Gravitas DVD (animation, I believe).  There is another paper I must include but I decide to write a short review separately.  

[astro-ph:0802.3411] N.Seto
&#160;&#160;&#160;Detecting Planets around Compact Binaries with Gravitational Wave Detectors in Space
[astro-ph:0802.3599] Jones &#038; van de Weygaert
&#160;&#160;&#160;Cosmic Order [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this posting, I added lecture notes on cosmic microwave background (CMB) and <a href="http://www.galaxydynamics.org/gravitas.html"> Gravitas DVD</a> (animation, I believe).  There is another paper I must include but I decide to write a short review separately.  <span id="more-243"></span></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3411">[astro-ph:0802.3411]</a> N.Seto<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Detecting Planets around Compact Binaries with Gravitational Wave Detectors in Space</strong></p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3599">[astro-ph:0802.3599]</a> Jones &#038; van de Weygaert<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Cosmic Order out of Primordial Chaos: a tribute to Nikos Voglis</strong></p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3764">[astro-ph:0802.3764]</a> J. Southworth<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Homogeneous studies of transiting extrasolar planets. I. Light curve analyses</strong></p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3914">[astro-ph:0802.3914]</a>  A. M. Wolfe et.al.<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong> Bimodality in Damped Lyman alpha Systems </strong> (Kolmogorov-Smirnoff test)</p>
<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3931">[astro-ph:0802.3931]</a> M.S. Wheatland<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>The Energetics of a Flaring Solar Active Region, and Observed Flare Statistics</strong>
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<p>A paper linked with an animation: <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3664">[astro-ph:0802.3664]</a> Dubinski and Farah<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong> GRAVITAS: Portraits of a Universe in Motion</strong> (I wanted to but I couldn&#8217;t watch.)<br />
Lecture notes on CMB: <a ref="http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3688">[astro-ph:0802.3688]</a> Wayne Hu<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong> Lecture Notes on CMB Theory: From Nucleosynthesis to Recombination</strong></p>
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