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Informationen zum Autor Eric D. Feigelson is a Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University. He is a leading observational astronomer and has worked with statisticians for twenty-five years to bring advanced methodology to problems in astronomical research. G. Jogesh Babu is Professor of Statistics and Director of the Center for Astrostatistics at Pennsylvania State University. He has made extensive contributions to probabilistic number theory, resampling methods, nonparametric methods, asymptotic theory and applications to biomedical research, genetics, astronomy and astrophysics. Klappentext A unique resource introducing graduate students and researchers in astronomy to advanced statistics through ready-to-use code. Zusammenfassung Linking astronomy to the world of modern statistics! this book is a unique resource introducing astronomers to advanced statistics through ready-to-use code in the public domain R statistical software environment. Examining fields of statistics applicable to astronomy! this is invaluable for graduate students and researchers facing complex data analysis tasks. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Probability; 3. Statistical inference; 4. Probability distribution functions; 5. Nonparametric statistics; 6. Density estimation or data smoothing; 7. Regression; 8. Multivariate analysis; 9. Clustering, classification and data mining; 10. Nondetections: censored and truncated data; 11. Time series analysis; 12. Spatial point processes; Appendices; Index.
