The AstroStat Slog » K-S test http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:05:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 [ArXiv] 3rd week, June 2008 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/arxiv-3rd-week-june-2008/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/arxiv-3rd-week-june-2008/#comments Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:10:21 +0000 hlee http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=338 This is my last [ArXiv] series.

  • [astro-ph:0806.2228] T.J. Cornwell
       Multi-Scale CLEAN deconvolution of radio synthesis images
  • [astro-ph:0806.2575] C.A.L. Bailer-Jones
       What will Gaia tell us about the Galactic disk?
  • [astro-ph:0806.2823] Williams et al.
       Lensed Image Angles: New Statistical Evidence for Substructure (Apart from their K-S tests, personally lensing is considered to be a nice subject from a geostatistics standpoint.)
  • [astro-ph:0806.3074] Eriksen and Wehus
       Marginal distributions for cosmic variance limited CMB polarization data
  • [astro-ph:0806.2969] W. Boschin et al.
       Optical analysis of the poor clusters Abell 610, Abell 725, and Abell 796, containing diffuse radio sources (astronomers call gaussian mixture models by KMM)
  • [astro-ph:0806.3096] Miller, Shimon, & Keating
       CMB Beam Systematics: Impact on Lensing Parameter Estimation (Note Monte Carlo Markov Chain in the abstract, not Markov chain Monte Carlo.)
]]> http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/arxiv-3rd-week-june-2008/feed/ 0 [ArXiv] 2nd week, June 2008 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/arxiv-2nd-week-june-2008/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/arxiv-2nd-week-june-2008/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:47:42 +0000 hlee http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=335 As Prof. Speed said, PCA is prevalent in astronomy, particularly this week. Furthermore, a paper explicitly discusses R, a popular statistics package.

  • [astro-ph:0806.1140] N.Bonhomme, H.M.Courtois, R.B.Tully
        Derivation of Distances with the Tully-Fisher Relation: The Antlia Cluster
    (Tully Fisher relation is well known and one of many occasions statistics could help. On the contrary, astronomical biases as well as measurement errors hinder from the collaboration).
  • [astro-ph:0806.1222] S. Dye
        Star formation histories from multi-band photometry: A new approach (Bayesian evidence)
  • [astro-ph:0806.1232] M. Cara and M. Lister
        Avoiding spurious breaks in binned luminosity functions
    (I think that binning is not always necessary and overdosed, while there are alternatives.)
  • [astro-ph:0806.1326] J.C. Ramirez Velez, A. Lopez Ariste and M. Semel
        Strength distribution of solar magnetic fields in photospheric quiet Sun regions (PCA was utilized)
  • [astro-ph:0806.1487] M.D.Schneider et al.
        Simulations and cosmological inference: A statistical model for power spectra means and covariances
    (They used R and its package Latin hypercube samples, lhs.)
  • [astro-ph:0806.1558] Ivan L. Andronov et al.
        Idling Magnetic White Dwarf in the Synchronizing Polar BY Cam. The Noah-2 Project (PCA is applied)
  • [astro-ph:0806.1880] R. G. Arendt et al.
        Comparison of 3.6 – 8.0 Micron Spitzer/IRAC Galactic Center Survey Point Sources with Chandra X-Ray Point Sources in the Central 40×40 Parsecs (K-S test)
]]> http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/arxiv-2nd-week-june-2008/feed/ 0 [ArXiv] 2nd week, Apr. 2008 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/arxiv-2nd-week-apr-2008/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/arxiv-2nd-week-apr-2008/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:21:41 +0000 hlee http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=267 Markov chain Monte Carlo became the most frequent and stable statistical application in astronomy. It will be useful collecting tutorials from both professions.

  • [astro-ph:0804.0620] Q. Wu et al.
    Late transient acceleration of the universe in string theory on $S^{1}/Z_{2}$ (MCMC)

  • [astro-ph:0804.0692] Corless, Dobke & King
    The Hubble constant from galaxy lenses: impacts of triaxiality and model degeneracies (MCMC, Bayesian Modeling)

  • [astro-ph:0804.0788] Zamfir, Sulentic, & Marziani
    New Insights on the QSO Radio-Loud/Radio-Quiet Dichotomy: SDSS Spectra in the Context of the 4D Eigenvector1 Parameter Space

  • [astro-ph:0804.0965] Bloom, Butler, & Perley
    Gamma-ray Bursts, Classified Physically (instead of statistics, it relies on physics to grow a (classification) tree)

  • [astro-ph:0804.1089] G.K.Skinner
    The sensitivity of coded mask telescopes

  • [astro-ph:0804.1197] Bagla, Prasad and Khandai
    Effects of the size of cosmological N-Body simulations on physical quantities – III: Skewness

  • [astro-ph:0804.1447] Marsh, Ireland, & Kucera
    Bayesian Analysis of Solar Oscillations

  • [astro-ph:0804.1532] C. López-Sanjuan, C. E. García-Dabó, M. Balcells
    A maximum likelihood method for bidimensional experimental distributions, and its application to the galaxy merger fraction

  • [astro-ph:0804.1536] V.J.Martinez (One of my favorite astronomers who brings in mathematics and statistics)
    The Large Scale Structure in the Universe: From Power-Laws to Acoustic Peaks
]]> http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/arxiv-2nd-week-apr-2008/feed/ 3 [ArXiv] 5th week, Jan. 2008 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/arxiv-5th-week-jan-2008/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/arxiv-5th-week-jan-2008/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:01:03 +0000 hlee http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/arxiv-5th-week-jan-2008/ Some statistics papers were listed at the top, of which topics would interest some slog subscribers.

From statistics arxiv:

  • [stat.CO:0801.3387] Contemplating Evidence: properties, extensions of, and alternatives to Nested Sampling N. Chopin &C. Robert
  • [math.ST:0801.4329] Estimators of Long-Memory: Fourier versus Wavelets G. Fay et.al. (not comprehensible but the title is more than interesting)

From astro-ph:

  • [astro-ph:0801.4041] Quantifying parameter errors due to the peculiar velocities of type Ia supernovae R. Ali Vanderveld
  • [astro-ph:0801.4233] Effects of the interaction between dark energy and dark matter on cosmological parameters J. He & B. Wang
  • [astro-ph:0801.4889] Temporal variability and statistics of the Strehl ratio in adaptive-optics images S. Gladysz
  • [astro-ph:0801.4751] Low-Luminosity Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Distinct GRB Population:A Monte Carlo Analysis F Virgili, E Liang, &B Zhang
  • [astro-ph:0801.4759] Optical afterglow luminosities in the Swift epoch: confirming clustering and bimodality M. Nardini, G. Ghisellini & G. Ghirlanda

(The last two papers mentioned Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and probability)

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