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PUBLICATIONS ON STATISTICAL METHODS IN ASTRONOMY:

  1. Lee, H., Kashyap, V. L., van Dyk, D. A., Connors, A., Drake, J. J., Izem, R., Meng, X. L., Min, S., Park, T., Ratzlaff, P., Siemiginowska, A., and Zezas, A. (2010). Accounting for Calibration Uncertainties in X-ray Analysis: Effective Areas in Spectral Fitting. The Astrophysical Journal, submitted. (Download pdf.)

  2. Jeffery, E., von Hipple, T., DeGennaro, S., van Dyk, D. A., Stein, N., and Jefferys, W. H. (2010). The White Dwarf Age of NGC 2477. Astrophysical Journal, in press. (Available upon request)

  3. Kashyap, V. L., van Dyk, D. A., Connors, A., Freeman, P. E., Siemiginowska, A., Xu, J., and Zezas, A. (2010). On Computing Upper Limits to Source Intensities. Astrophysical Journal, 719, 900-914. (Download pdf.)

  4. van Dyk, D. A., DeGennaro, S., Stein, N., Jefferys, W. H., and von Hipple, T. (2009). Statistical Analysis of Stellar Evolution. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 3 117-143. (Download pdf.) (Download supplemental materials.)

  5. DeGennaro, S., von Hipple, T., Jefferys, W. H., Stein, N., van Dyk, D. A., and Jeffery, E. (2008). Inverting Color-Magnitude Diagrams to Access Precise Star Cluster Parameters: A New White Dwarf Age for the Hyades. The Astrophysical Journal, 696, 12-23. (Download pdf.)

  6. Park, T., van Dyk, D. A., and Siemiginowska, A. (2008). Searching for Narrow Emission Lines in X-ray Spectra: Computation and Methods The Astrophysical Journal, 688, 807-825. (Download pdf.)

  7. Connors, A. and van Dyk, D. A. (2007). How To Win With Non-Gaussian Data: Poisson Goodness-of-Fit. In Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV (Editors: G. J. Babu and E. D. Feigelson), Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, Vol. CS371, 101-117. (Download pdf.)

  8. Park, T., Kashyap, V. L., Siemiginowska, A., van Dyk, D. A., Zezas, A. Heinke, C. and Wargelin, B. J. (2006). Hardness Ratios with Poisson Errors: Modeling and Computations. The Astrophysical Journal, 652, 610-628. (Download pdf.)

  9. van Dyk, D. A., Connors, A., Esch, D. N., Freeman, P., Kang, H., Karovska, M., Kashyap, V., Siemiginowska, A., and Zezas, A. (2006). Deconvolution in High Energy Astrophysics: Science, Instrumentation, and Methods (with discussion). Bayesian Analysis, 1, 189-236. (Download pdf.). (Download Rejoinder pdf.)

  10. Kang, H., van Dyk, D.~A., Kashyap, V. L. and Connors, A. (2005). Incorporating Atomic Data Errors in Stellar DEM Reconstructions. In XDAP Proceedings. (Download pdf.)

  11. van Dyk, D. A. and Kang, H. (2004). Highly Structured Hierarchical Models for Spectral Analysis in High Energy Astrophysics. Invited paper for special astro-statistics issue of Statistical Science , 19, 275-293. (Download pdf.)
  12. Esch, D. N., Connors, A., Karovska, M., and van Dyk, D. A. (2004). An Image Reconstruction Technique with Error Estimates. The Astrophysical Journal, 610, 1213-1227. (Download pdf.)

  13. van Dyk, D. A. and Park, T., (2004). Efficient EM-Type Algorithms for Fitting Spectral Lines in High Energy Astrophysics. In Applied Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference from Incomplete-Data Perspectives: An Essential Journey with Donald Rubin's Statistical Family (Editors: A. Gelman and X. L. Meng), Wiley \& Sons, New York, 285-296. (Download pdf.)

  14. van Dyk, D. A. (2004). Highly-Structured Statistical Models in High Energy Astrophysics. In Proceedings of the Conference on Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology (Editors: L. Lyons, R. Mount, and R. Reitmeyer), SLAC Technical Publications Department, Menlo Park, CA, 114-121. (Download pdf.)

  15. van Dyk, D. A. (2003). Hierarchical Models, Data Augmentation, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo with discussion. In Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy III (Editors: G. J. Babu and E. D. Feigelson), Springer, New York, 41-56. (Download pdf.)

  16. Protassov, R., van Dyk, D. A., Connors, A., Kashyap, V. L. and Siemiginowska, A. (2002). Statistics: Handle with Care, Detecting Multiple Model Components with the Likelihood Ratio Test. The Astrophysical Journal, 571, 545-559. (Download pdf.)

  17. van Dyk, D. A. and Hans, C. M. (2002). Accounting for Absorption Lines in Images Obtained with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. In Spatial Cluster Modelling (Editors: D. Denison and A. Lawson), CRC Press, London, 175-198. (Download pdf.)

  18. van Dyk, D. A. (2002). Invited comment on Setting Confidence Intervals on Bounded Parameters by M. Mandelkern. Statistical Science, 17, 149-172. (Download pdf.)

  19. van Dyk, D. A., Connors, A., Kashyap, V. L., Siemiginowska, A. (2001). Analysis of Energy Spectra with Low Photon Counts via Bayesian Posterior Simulation. The Astrophysical Journal , 548, 224-243. (Download pdf.)