PRESENTATIONS ON STATISTICAL METHODS IN ASTRONOMY:
Disclaimer: The actual presenation of a talk may have varied somewhat from the slides or posters posted here.
- Statistical Analysis of Stellar Evolution.
(The Biometric Society WNAR Meetings, Portland, Oregon, June, 2009;
Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, May, 2009;
Department of Statistics, Columbia University, May, 2009;
Center for Statistics in the Social Sciences, University of Washington, April, 2009;
The Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, Colorado, August 2008;
Calibration and Validation of Complex Computer Models: Bayesian Approaches, Bayesian
Solutions, Satellite Workshop to the Ninth International Society for Bayesian Analysis World
Meeting, Sydney, Australia, July 2008;
The Seventh World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Singapore, July 2008).
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- Statistical Analysis of Stellar Evolution. (Poster,
The Ninth International Society for Bayesian Analysis World
Meeting, Sydney, Australia, July 2008).
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- Spectral Analysis of Faint Astronomical Objects: Bayesian Modeling, Computation, and Inference.
(Statistics Group, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, March 2008;
Department of Statistics, University of Illinois, March 2008
Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, October 2007;
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 2007;
Department of Statistics, National University of Singapore, April 2007;
Department of Statistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, April 2007).
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- Statistics: Handle with Care (Hypothesis Testing).
(Tenth High Energy Astrophysics Division Meetings, Los Angeles, California, March 2008).
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- What is an Upper Limit?. (Poster,
Tenth High Energy Astrophysics Division Meetings, Los Angeles, California, March 2008).
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- Fully Bayesian Analysis of Low-Count Astronomical Images.
(The Joint Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 2007).
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- Multi-Scale Image Reconstruction with Low-Count Poisson Data.
(First GLAST Symposium, Palo Alto, California, February 2007).
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- Fitting Narrow Spectral Lines in High Energy Astrophysics Using Incompatible Gibbs Samplers.
(Poster The Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics,
Benidorm, Spain, June 2006).
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- Highly Structured Models in High Energy Astrophysics.
(Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, January 2006;
Department of Mathematics, California State University, Bakersfield, October, 2006;
Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, November 2005;
Reed Institute for Decision Science. Claremont McKenna College, February, 2005;
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, November 2004;
Department of Statistics, Los Alamos National Labs, Los Alamos New Mexico, May 2004;
Division of Biostatistics, University of California, San Diego, April 2004)
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- Comments on ``How to Win With Non-Gaussian Data: Poisson Imaging Version'' by Alanna Connors
(Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV, State College, Pennsylvania, June 2006).
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- Detection Limits, Upper Limits, and Confidence Intervals in High-Energy Astrophysics.
(Workshop on Statistical inference Problems in High Energy Physics and Astronomy, Banff International Research Station, Canada, July, 2006).
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- Reconstructing of the Physical Enviornment of a Stellar Corona.
(Fifth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Newport Beach, California, April 2005;
Sixth International Chinese Statistical Association Conference, Singapore, August 2004;
The Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Ontario, August 2004;
Seventh World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, Vina del Mar, Chile, May 2004).
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- Highly Structured Models and High Energy Astrophysics.
( Poster
SAMSI Opening Workshop, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 2006;
The Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Ontario, August 2004).
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- Two New Statistical Tools for Bayesian Analysis of Low-Count Spectra.
(Meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the
American Astronomical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, September, 2004).
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- BEHR (Bayesian Estimation of Hardness Ratios): Computing Hardness Ratios with Poissonian Errors.
(Poster Meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the
American Astronomical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, September, 2004).
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- Reconstructing Stellar DEMs from X-ray Spectra.
(Poster Meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the
American Astronomical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, September, 2004).
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- Bayesian Estimation of logN-logS (BENS).
(Poster Meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the
American Astronomical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, September, 2004).
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