The AstroStat Slog » cosmologist http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:05:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 [ArXiv] 3rd week, Dec. 2007 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2007/arxiv-3rd-week-dec-2007/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2007/arxiv-3rd-week-dec-2007/#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:40:09 +0000 hlee http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2007/arxiv-3rd-week-dec-2007/ The paper about the Banff challenge [0712.2708] and the statistics tutorial for cosmologists [0712.3028] are the personal recommendations from this week’s [arXiv] list. Especially, I’d like to quote from Licia Verde’s [astro-ph:0712.3028],

In general, Cosmologists are Bayesians and High Energy Physicists are Frequentists.

I thought it was opposite. By the way, if you crave for more papers, click

  • [astro-ph:0712.2544]
    RHESSI Microflare Statistics II. X-ray Imaging, Spectroscopy & Energy Distributions I. G. Hannah et.al.

  • [stat.AP;0712.2708]
    The Banff Challenge: Statistical Detection of a Noisy Signal A. C. Davison & N. Sartori

  • [astro-ph:0712.2898]
    A study of supervised classification of Hipparcos variable stars using PCA and Support Vector Machines P.G. Willemsen & L. Eyer

  • [astro-ph:0712.2961]
    The frequency distribution of the height above the Galactic plane for the novae M. Burlak

  • [astro-ph:0712.3028]
    A practical guide to Basic Statistical Techniques for Data Analysis in Cosmology L. Verde

  • [astro-ph:0712.3049]
    ZOBOV: a parameter-free void-finding algorithm M. C. Neyrinck

  • [stat.CO:0712.3056]
    Gibbs Sampling for a Bayesian Hierarchical Version of the General Linear Mixed Model A. A. Johnson & G L. Jones

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