| 3rd IIA-PennState Astrostatistics School Lectures | ||||||||
| Lectures: | ||||||||
| 1st Day | Historical Remarks | Sabyasachi Chatterjee | (notes) | (audio) | ||||
| 1st Day | Challenges of Modern Empirical Astrophysics | Prajval Shastri | (audio) | |||||
| & Overview of the School | (presentation) | (audio) | ||||||
| 1st Day | Probability | Bhamidi V Rao | (notes) | (presentation) | (audio) | |||
| 2nd Day | Estimation, Confidence Intervals & Hypothesis Testing | Bhamidi V Rao | (notes) | (audio) | ||||
| 2nd Day | Bayesian Analysis | Mohan Delampady | (notes) | (presentation) | (audio) | |||
| 2nd Day | Maximum Likelihood Estimates | Bhamidi V Rao | (notes) | (audio) | ||||
| 3rd Day | Non-parametric Statistics | Sushama Bendre | (notes) | (presentation) | (audio) | |||
| 3rd Day | R demo | Deepayan Sarkar | (notes) | (R code) | (audio) | |||
| 4th Day | Correlation & Regression | Rajeeva Karandikar | (notes) | (presentation) | (audio) | |||
| 4th Day | Statistical Applications in the Astronomy Literature I | Jogesh Babu | (presentation) | (audio) | ||||
| 4th Day | Truncation & Censoring | Jogesh Babu | (presentation) | (audio) | ||||
| 5th Day | Model Selection & Evaluation, Goodness-of-fit | Rajeeva Karandikar | (notes) | (presentation) | (audio) | |||
| 5th Day | EM Algorithm | Thriyambakam Krishnan | (presentation) | (audio) | ||||
| 6th Day | Jackknife and Bootstrap | Jogesh Babu | (notes) | (presentation) | (audio) | |||
| 6th Day | Multivariate Analysis | Thriyambakam Krishnan | (presentation) | (audio) | ||||
| 7th Day | Cluster Analysis | Thriyambakam Krishnan | (presentation) | (audio) | ||||
| 7th Day | MCMC methods | T Krishnan & A Chakraborty | (notes) | (R code) | (audio) | |||
| 7th Day | Statistical Applications in the Astronomy Literature II | Jogesh Babu | (presentation) | (audio) | ||||
| ref: | Protassov etal 2002 (ADS link) | |||||||
| ref: | Voi etal 2010 (ADS link) | |||||||
| ref: | Hou etal 2009 (ADS Link) | |||||||
| 8th Day | VOStat Tools for Web Computing | Jogesh Babu & Arnab Chakraborty | (weblink) | (audio) | ||||
| R Tutorials, Data Sets & Scripts | ||||||||
| Exercises | Jogesh Babu | |||||||
| Extra Material: | ||||||||
| Monte Carlo Markov Chain Methods | Mohan Delampady | (cf Bayesian Analysis p20) | ||||||
| Introduction to Bayesian Analysis | Tom Loredo | (notes) | ||||||
| Posterior Sampling & MCMC via Metropolis-Hastings | Tom Loredo | (presentation) | ||||||
| MCMC tutorial (PennState Summer School 2010) | Murali Haran | (notes) | (tutorial) | |||||
| Bayesian Statistics (in Resonance magazine) | M Delampady & T Krishnan | (article) | ||||||
| Time-Series | Eric Feigelson | (presentation) | ||||||