| Series | Lecture notes in statistics, 0930-0325 ; 209. Proceedings
Lecture notes in statistics (Springer-Verlag) ; 209. ^A162590
Lecture notes in statistics (Springer-Verlag). Proceedings. ^A1256833 |
| Contents |
Part 1. Statistics in Cosmology -- Likelihood-Free Inference in Cosmology: Potential for the Estimation of Luminosity Functions / Chad M. Schafer and Peter E. Freeman -- Commentary: Likelihood-Free Inference in Cosmology: Potential for the Estimation of Luminosity Functions / Martin A. Hendry -- Robust, Data-Driven Inference in Non-linear Cosmostatistics / Benjamin D. Wandelt, Jens Jasche and Guilhem Lavaux -- Simulation-Aided Inference in Cosmology / David Higdon, Earl Lawrence, Katrin Heitmann and Salman Habib -- Commentary: Simulation-Aided Inference in Cosmology / Carlo Graziani -- The Matter Spectral Density from Lensed Cosmic Microwave Background Observations / Ethan Anderes and Alexander van Engelen -- Commentary: 'The Matter Spectral Density from Lensed Cosmic Microwave Background Observations' / Alan Heavens -- Needlets Estimation in Cosmology and Astrophysics / Domenico Marinucci. Part 2. Bayesian Analysis Across Astronomy -- Parameter Estimation and Model Selection in Extragalactic Astronomy / Martin D. Weinberg -- Commentary: Bayesian Model Selection and Parameter Estimation / Philip C. Gregory -- Cosmological Bayesian Model Selection: Recent Advances and Open Challenges / Roberto Trotta -- Commentary: Cosmological Bayesian Model Selection / David A. van Dyk -- Measurement Error Models in Astronomy / Brandon C. Kelly -- Commentary: "Measurement Error Models in Astronomy" by Brandon C. Kelly / David Ruppert -- Asteroseismology: Bayesian Analysis of Solar-Like Oscillators / Othman Benomar -- Semi-parametric Robust Event Detection for Massive Time-Domain Databases / Alexander W. Blocker and Pavlos Protopapas -- Bayesian Analysis of Reverberation Mapping Data / Brendon J. Brewer -- Bayesian Mixture Models for Poisson Astronomical Images / Fabrizia Guglielmetti, Rainer Fischer and Volker Dose -- Systematic Errors in High-Energy Astrophysics / Vinay Kashyap -- Hierarchical Bayesian Models for Type Ia Supernova Inference / Kaisey S. Mandel -- Bayesian Flux Reconstruction in One and Two Bands / Eric R. Switzer, Thomas M. Crawford and Christian L. Reichardt -- Commentary: Bayesian Analysis Across Astronomy / Thomas J. Loredo. |
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Part 3. Data Mining and Astroinformatics -- Sparse Astronomical Data Analysis / Jean-Luc Starck -- Exploiting Non-linear Structure in Astronomical Data for Improved Statistical Inference / Ann B. Lee and Peter E. Freeman -- Commentary: Exploiting Non-linear Structure in Astronomical Data for Improved Statistical Inference / Didier Fraix-Burnet -- Surprise Detection in Multivariate Astronomical Data / Kirk D. Borne and Arun Vedachalam -- On Statistical Cross-Identification in Astronomy / Tamás Budavári -- Commentary: On Statistical Cross-Identification in Astronomy / Thomas J. Loredo -- Data Compression Methods in Astrophysics / Raul Jimenez -- Commentary: Data Compression Methods in Astrophysics / Ann B. Lee. Part 4. Image and Time Series Analysis -- Morphological Image Analysis and Sunspot Classification / David Stenning, Vinay Kashyap, Thomas C. M. Lee, David A. van Dyk and C. Alex Young -- Commentary: Morphological Image Analysis and Sunspot Classification / Ricardo Vilalta -- Learning About the Sky Through Simulations / Andrew Connolly, John Peterson, Garret Jernigan, D. Bard and the LSST Image Simulation Group -- Commentary: Learning About the Sky Through Simulations / Michael J. Way -- Statistical Analyses of Data Cubes / Erik Rosolowsky -- Astronomical Transient Detection Controlling the False Discovery Rate / Nicolle Clements, Sanat K. Sarkar and Wenge Guo -- Commentary: Astronomical Transient Detection Controlling the False Discovery Rate / Peter E. Freeman -- Slepian Wavelet Variances for Regularly and Irregularly Sampled Time Series / Debashis Mondal and Donald B. Percival -- Commentary: Slepian Wavelet Variances for Regularly and Irregularly Samples Time Series / Jeffrey D. Scargle. |
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Part 5. The Future of Astrostatistics -- Astrostatistics in the International Arena / Joseph M. Hilbe -- The R Statistical Computing Environment / Luke Tierney -- Panel Discussion: The Future of Astrostatistics / G. Jogesh Babu. Part 6. Contributed Papers -- Bayesian Estimation of log N -- log S / Paul D. Baines, Irina S. Udaltsova, Andreas Zezas and Vinay L. Kashyap -- Techniques for Massive-Data Machine Learning in Astronomy / Nicholas M. Ball -- A Bayesian Approach to Gravitational Lens Model Selection / Irene Balmès -- Identification of Outliers Through Clustering and Semi-supervised Learning for All Sky Surveys / Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya, Joseph W. Richards, John Rice, Dan L. Starr and Nathaniel R. Butler, et al. -- Estimation of Moments on the Sphere by Means of Fast Convolution / P. Bielewicz, B. D. Wandelt and A. J. Banday -- Variability Detection by Change-Point Analysis / Seo-Won Chang, Yong-Ik Byun and Jaegyoon Hahm -- Evolution as a Confounding Parameter in Scaling Relations for Galaxies / Didier Fraix-Burnet -- Detecting Galaxy Mergers at High Redshift / P. E. Freeman, R. Izbicki, Ann B. Lee, C. Schafer and D. Slepčev, et al. -- |
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Multi-component Analysis of a Sample of Bright X-Ray Selected Active Galactic Nuclei / Dirk Grupe -- Applying the Background-Source Separation Algorithm to Chandra Deep Field South Data / F. Guglielmetti, H. Böhringer, R. Fischer, P. Rosati and P. Tozzi -- Non-Gaussian Physics of the Cosmological Genus Statistic / J. Berian James -- Modeling Undetectable Flares / Vinay Kashyap, Steve Saar, Jeremy Drake, Kathy Reeves and Jennifer Posson-Brown, et al. -- An F-Statistic Based Multi-detector Veto for Detector Artifacts in Gravitational Wave Data / D. Keitel, R. Prix, M. A. Papa and M. Siddiqi -- Constrained Probability Distributions of Correlation Functions / D. Keitel and P. Schneider -- Improving Weak Lensing Reconstructions in 3D Using Sparsity / Adrienne Leonard, François-Xavier Dupé and Jean-Luc Starck -- Bayesian Predictions from the Semi-analytic Models of Galaxy Formation / Yu Lu, H. J. Mo, Martin D. Weinberg and Neal Katz -- Statistical Issues in Galaxy Cluster Cosmology / Adam Mantz, Steven W. Allen and David Rapetti -- Statistical Analyses to Understand the Relationship Between the Properties of Exoplanets and Their Host Stars / Elizabeth Martínez-Gómez -- Identifying High-z Gamma-Ray Burst Candidates Using Random Forest Classification / Adam N. Morgan, James Long, Tamara Broderick, Joseph W. Richards and Joshua S. Bloom -- Fitting Distributions of Points Using [tau]2 / Tim Naylor -- Theoretical Power Spectrum Estimation from Cosmic Microwave Background Data / Paniez Paykari, Jean-Luc Starck and M. Jalal Fadili -- Guilt by Association: Finding Cosmic Ray Sources Using Hierarchical Bayesian Clustering / Kunlaya Soiaporn, David Chernoff, Thomas Loredo, David Ruppert and Ira Wasserman -- Statistical Differences Between Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Classes Based on [gamma]- and X-ray Observations / Dorottya Szécsi, Lajos G. Balázs, Zsolt Bagoly, István Horváth and Attila Mészáros, et al. -- A Quasi-Gaussian Approximation for the Probability Distribution of Correlation Functions / Philipp Wilking and Peter Schneider -- New Insights into Galaxy Structure from GALPHAT / Ilsang Yoon, Martin Weinberg and Neal Katz. |
| General note | "These are the proceedings of the fifth SCMA conference held in June 2011"--P. v. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012939628 |
| ISBN | 9781461435198 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 1461435196 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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