PRESENTATIONS ON STATISTICAL METHODS IN ASTRONOMY:
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- Unified Analyses of Populations of Sources: Advantages of “Shrinkage Estimates” in Astronomy (2015).
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- Science-Driven Models for Image Analysis in Astronomy and Solar Physics (2015).
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- Advanced Statistical and Computational Methods for Emerging Challenges in Astronomy and Solar Physics
( Poster , 2014).
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- Big Data, Big Challenges, and Big Ideas in 21st Century Astrostatistics (2014).
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- Bayesian Analysis of Power Law Models in High-Energy Astrophysics and in Solar Physics (2014).
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- Embedding the Big Bang Cosmological Model into a Bayesian Hierarchical Model (2014).
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- Big Data: the Big Picture (2014).
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- The Role of Statistics in the Discovery of a Higgs Boson (2013).
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- Big Data and Complex Modeling: Challenges in Astronomy and Solar Physics (2013).
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- Embedding Astronomical Computer Models into Principled Statistical Analyses (2013).
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- Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in High Energy Astrophysics (2012).
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- Computation Challenges Posed by Highly-Structured Models and Computer Models in Astrophysics (2012).
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- Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in High Energy Astrophysics via the Partially Collapsed Gibbs Samplers with MH updates (2012).
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- Automatic Classification and Tracking of Solar Features (Poster, 2012).
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- Embedding Astronomical Computer Models into Complex Statistical Models. (2011).
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- Statistical Learning Challenges in Astronomy and Solar Physics (2011).
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- Automatic Classification and Tracking of Solar Features (2011).
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- Future Directions of Astrostatistics (2011).
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- Discussion of Cosmological Bayesian Model Selection: Recent Advances and Open Challenges by R. Trotta (2011).
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- Bayesian Inference for the White Dwarf Initial-Final Mass Relation (Poster, 2011).
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- Using PyBLoCXS for a Fully Bayesian Analysis of Calibration Uncertainty in High Energy Spectral Analysis (Poster2011).
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- A Statistician’s Approach to Setting Upper Limits, Computing Intervals, and Detection (2011).
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- Embedding Computer Models for Stellar Evolution into a Coherent Statistical Analysis (2010).
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- Summary of Statistical Issues Discussed in the Workshop
(Workshop on Statistical Issues Relevant to Significance of Discovery Claims,
Banff International Research Station, Canada, July, 2010)..
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- Upper Limits (2010).
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- Metropolis Hastings within Partially Collapsed Gibbs with
Applications in High-Energy Astrophysics (2010).
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- Coherent Statistical Calibration of High-Energy Photon Detectors
(2009).
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- Statistical Analysis of Stellar Evolution (2008).
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- Statistical Analysis of Stellar Evolution (Poster, 2008).
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- Spectral Analysis of Faint Astronomical Objects: Bayesian Modeling, Computation, and Inference.
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- Statistics: Handle with Care (Hypothesis Testing) (2008).
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- What is an Upper Limit? (Poster,2008 ).
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- Fully Bayesian Analysis of Low-Count Astronomical Images (2007).
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- Multi-Scale Image Reconstruction with Low-Count Poisson Data (2007).
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- Fitting Narrow Spectral Lines in High Energy Astrophysics Using Incompatible Gibbs Samplers
(Poster, 2006).
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- Highly Structured Models in High Energy Astrophysics. (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 (2006).
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- Reconstructing of the Physical Enviornment of a Stellar Corona. (2005).
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- Highly Structured Models and High Energy Astrophysics
( Poster , 2004).
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- Two New Statistical Tools for Bayesian Analysis of Low-Count Spectra (2004).
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- BEHR (Bayesian Estimation of Hardness Ratios): Computing Hardness Ratios with Poissonian Errors
(Poster, 2004).
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- Reconstructing Stellar DEMs from X-ray Spectra
(Poster, 2004).
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- Bayesian Estimation of logN-logS (BENS)
(Poster, 2004).
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