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PUBLICATIONS ON STATISTICAL METHODS IN ASTRONOMY:

  1. Hill, R., Trotta, R., Ali-Khan, S., Jiao, X., Parker, W., Paulus, M., Shariff, H., van Dyk, D. A., and Lucky, L. B. (2017). Projected Distances to Host Galaxy Reduce SNIa Dispersion. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, revision requested. (Download from arXiv.org.)

  2. Stampoulis, V., van Dyk, D. A., Kashyap, V. L., and Zezas, A. (2017). Multidimensional Data Driven Classification of Active Galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, revision requested. (Available on request.)

  3. Tak, H., Mandel, K., van Dyk, D. A. Kashyap, V. L., Meng, X.-L., and Siemiginowska, A. (2017). Bayesian Estimates of Astronomical Time Delays Between Gravitationally Lensed Stochastic Light Curves. Annals of Applied Statistics, to appear. (Download from arXiv.org.)

  4. Si, S., van Dyk, D. A., von Hipple, T., Robinson, E., Webster, A., and Stenning, D. (2017). A Hierarchical Model for the Ages of Galactic Halo White Dwarfs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468, 4374--4388. (DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx765). (Download from arXiv.org.)

  5. Wagner-Kaiser, R., Sarajedini, A., von Hippel, T., Stenning, D. C., van Dyk, D. A., Jeffery, E., Robinson, E., Stein, N., Anderson, J., and Jefferys, W. H. (2017). The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters XIV: Bayesian Single-Population Analysis of 69 Globular Clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468, 1038--1055. (DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx544). (Download from arXiv.org.)

  6. McKeough, K., Siemiginowska, A., Cheung, C. C., Stawarz, L., Kashyap, V. L., Stein, N., Stampoulis, V., van Dyk, D. A., Wardle, J. F. C., Lee, N. P., Harris, D. E., Schwartz, D. A., Donato, D., Maraschi, L., and Tavecchio, F. (2016). Detecting Relativistic X-ray Jets in High-Redshift Quasars. The Astrophysical Journal, 833, 123 (21 pages). (DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/123). (Download from arXiv.org.)

  7. Algeri, S., van Dyk, D. A., Conrad, J., and Anderson, B. (2016). On Methods for Correcting for the Look-Elsewhere Effect in Searches for New Physics. Journal of Instrumentation, 11, P12010. (DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/11/12/P12010). (Download from arXiv.org.)

  8. Wagner-Kaiser, R., Stenning, D., Sarajedini, A., von Hippel, T., van Dyk, D. A., Robinson, E., Stein, N. M., and Jefferys, W. H. (2016). Bayesian Analysis of Two Stellar Populations in Galactic Globular Clusters III: Analysis of 30 Clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463, 3768--3782. (DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2247). (Download from arXiv.org.)

  9. Shariff, H., Dhawan, S., Jiao, X., Leibundgut, B., Trotta, R., and van Dyk, D. A. (2016). Standardizing Type Ia Supernovae Using Near Infrared Rebrightening Timing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463, 4311--4316. (DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2278). (Download from arXiv.org.)

  10. Wong, R. K. W., Kashyap, V. L., Lee, T. C. M., and van Dyk, D. A. (2016). Detecting Abrupt Changes in the Spectra of High-Energy Astrophysical Sources. Annals of Applied Statistics, 10, 1107--1134. (DOI: 10.1214/16-AOAS933). (Download from arXiv.org.)

  11. Jeffery, E. J., von Hippel, T., van Dyk, D. A., Stein, N. M., Robinson, E., and Jefferys, W. H. (2016). A Bayesian Analysis of the Ages of Four Open Clusters. The Astrophysical Journal, 828, 79 (13 pages). (DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/828/2/79). (Download from arXiv.org.)

  12. Stenning, D., Wagner-Kaiser, R., Robinson, E., van Dyk, D. A., von Hippel, T., Sarajedini, A., and Stein, N. M. (2016). Bayesian Analysis of Two Stellar Populations in Galactic Globular Clusters I: Statistical and Computational Methods. The Astrophysical Journal, 826, 41 (16 pages). (DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/41). (Download from arXiv.org.)

  13. Stein, N. M., van Dyk, D. A., and Kashyap, V. L. (2016). Preprocessing Solar Images while Preserving their Latent Structure. Statistics and Its Interface, 826, 535--551. (DOI: 10.4310/SII.2016.v9.n4.a12). (Download from arXiv.org.)

  14. Shariff, H., Jiao, X., Trotta, R., and van Dyk, D. A. (2016). BAHAMAS: New SNIa Analysis Reveals Inconsistencies with Standard Cosmology. The Astrophysical Journal, 827, 1 (25 pages). (DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/1). (Download from arXiv.org.)

  15. Wagner-Kaiser, R., Stenning, D., Robinson, E., von Hippel, T., Sarajedini, A., van Dyk, D. A., Stein, N. M., and Jefferys, W.H. (2016). Bayesian Analysis of Two Stellar Populations in Galactic Globular Clusters II: NGC 5024, NGC 5272, and NGC 6352. The Astrophysical Journal, 826, 42 (21 pages). (DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/42). (Download from arXiv.org.)

  16. Algeri, S., Conrad, J., and van Dyk, D. A. (2016). Comparing Non-Nested Models in the Search for New Physics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 458 (1), L84--L88. (DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slw025). (Download from arXiv.org.)

  17. Stein, N. M., van Dyk, D. A., Kashyap, V. L., and Siemiginowska, A. (2015). Detecting Unspecified Structure in Low-Count Images. The Astrophysical Journal, 813, 66 (15 pages). (DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/813/1/66). (Download pdf.)

  18. Jones, D. E., Kashyap, V. L., and van Dyk, D. A. (2015). Disentangling Overlapping Astronomical Sources using Spatial and Spectral Information. The Astrophysical Journal, 808, 137 (24 pages). (DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/808/2/137). (Download pdf.)

  19. Liao, K., Treu, T., Marshall, P., Fassnacht, C. D., Rumbaugh, N., Dobler, G., Aghamousa, A., Bonvin, V., Courbin, F., Hojjati, A., Jackson, N., Kashyap, V., Kumar, S. R., Linder, E., Mandel, K., Meng, X.-L., Meylan, G., Moustakas, L. A., Prabhu, T. P., Romero-Wolf, A., Shafieloo, A., Siemiginowska, A., Stalin, C. S., Tak, H., Tewes, M., and van Dyk, D. A. (2015). Strong Lens Time Delay Challenge: II. Results of TDC1. The Astrophysical Journal, 800, 11 (23pp). (DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/800/1/11). (Download pdf.)

  20. Xu, J., van Dyk, D.~A., Kashyap, V. L., Siemiginowska, A., Connors, A., Drake, J. J., Meng, X. L., Ratzlaff, P., and Yu, Y. (2014). A Fully Bayesian Method to Jointly Fit Calibration and X-ray Spectral Models. The Astrophysical Journal, 794, 97 (21pp). (DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/794/2/97). (Download pdf.)

  21. van Dyk, D. A. (2014). The Role of Statistics in the Discovery of a Higgs Boson. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 1, 41--59. (DOI: 10.1146/annurev-statistics-062713-085841). (Download pdf.)

  22. O.Malley, E. M., von Hippel, T., and van Dyk, D. A. (2013). A Bayesian Approach to Deriving Ages of Individual Field White Dwarfs. The Astrophysical Journal, 775, 1 (11pp). (DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/775/1/1). (Download pdf.)

  23. Stenning, D. C., Lee, T. C. M, van Dyk, D. A., Kashyap, V. L., Sandell, J., and Young, C. A. (2013). Morphological Feature Extraction for Statistical Learning with Applications to Solar Images Data. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 6, 329--345. (DOI: 10.1002/sam.11200). (Download pdf.)

  24. Stein, N. M., van Dyk, D. A., von Hippel, T. , DeGennaro, S., Jeffrey, E. J., and Jefferys, W. H. (2013). Combining Computer Models to Account for Mass Loss in Stellar Evolution. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 6, 34--52. (DOI: 10.1002/sam.11172). (Download pdf.)

  25. Yu, Y., Kashyap, V. L, van Dyk, D. A., and Young, A. (2012). A Bayesian Analysis of the Correlations Among Sunspot Cycles. Solar Physics, under revision. (Download arXiv version.) (Download published version.)

  26. Stenning, D., Kashyap, V., Lee, T. C. M., van Dyk, D. A., and Young, C. A. (2012). Morphological Image Analysis and Its Application to Sunspot Classification. In Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V (Editors: G. J. Babu and E. D. Feigelson), Springer Verlag, New York, 329--342. (Download pdf.)

  27. 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. (2011). Accounting for Calibration Uncertainties in X-ray Analysis: Effective Areas in Spectral Fitting. The Astrophysical Journal, 731, 126-144. (Download pdf.)

  28. Jeffery, E., von Hipple, T., DeGennaro, S., van Dyk, D. A., Stein, N., and Jefferys, W. H. (2011). The White Dwarf Age of NGC 2477. Astrophysical Journal, 730, 35-44. (Download pdf.)

  29. van Dyk, D. A. (2011). Setting Limits, Computing Intervals, and Detection. In Proceedings of Phystat 2011 (Editors: H. Prosper and L. Lyons), CERN Yellow Report, 149-157. (Download pdf.)

  30. van Dyk, D. A. and Park, T. (2011). Partially Collapsed Gibbs Sampling & Path-Adaptive Metropolis-Hastings in High-Energy Astrophysics. In Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (Editors: S. Brooks, A. Gelman, G. Jones and X.-L. Meng), Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 383-399. (Download pdf.)

  31. 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.)

  32. 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.) .

  33. 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.).

  34. 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.).

  35. 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.).

  36. 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.).

  37. 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.).

  38. 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.).

  39. 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.).

  40. 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.).

  41. 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.).

  42. Kang, H., van Dyk, D.~A., Kashyap, V. L. and Connors, A. (2002). Incorporating Atomic Data Errors in Stellar DEM Reconstructions. In XDAP Proceedings. (Download pdf.).

  43. 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.).

  44. 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.).

  45. 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.).

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

  47. 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.).