astrostatistics
catdynamics | February 22, 2013A couple of astrostatistics related announcements:
1) The Astrostatistics & Astroinformatics Portal is open.
"The ASAIP provides searchable abstracts to Recent Papers in the field, several discussion Forums, various resources for researchers, brief Articles by experts, and lists of Meetings. The site will be used for public outreach by four organizations: International Astrostatistics Association (IAA, to be affiliated with the International Statistical Institute), American Astronomical Society Working Group in Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics, International Astronomical Union…
catdynamics | June 7, 2012"Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write." H.G.Wells
Today! I swung by the penultimate session of the VIIIth Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers, just to catch a couple of old friends who were at the school, chat a bit at the coffee break, and get a quick refresher in clustering...
The school, being the 8th in a series, is offered by the Penn State Center for Astrostatistics, an NSF funded interdisciplinary center in, well, astronomy and statistics.
The school is very popular, and is aimed at graduate students in…