Astrostatistics is rapidly becoming a major subfield within astronomy and cosmology (once again). In this section we provide a number of introductory articles on basic statistics, links to other sites and some review articles on astronomy in the Internet Age.
DATA MINING AND MACHINE LEARNING IN
ASTRONOMY - Nicholas M. Ball & Robert J. Brunner (2010)
STATISTICAL CHALLENGES IN MODERN
ASTRONOMY - E.D. Feigelson & G.J. Babu (2004)
PENNSTATE CENTER FOR
ASTROSTATISTICS
STATISTICS
GLOSSARY (V1.1) - V.J. Easton and J.H. McColl (2004)
Statistics
Glossary: Basic Definitions
Statistics
Glossary: Paired Correlation and Regression
Statistics
Glossary: Categorical Data
Statistics
Glossary: Confidence Intervals
Statistics
Glossary: Design of Experiments and ANOVA
Statistics
Glossary: Hypothesis Testing
Statistics
Glossary: Non-Parametric Methods
Statistics
Glossary: Presenting Data
Statistics
Glossary: Probability
Statistics
Glossary: Sampling
Statistics
Glossary: Time Series Data
STATISTICAL
CONSULTING CENTER FOR ASTRONOMY
HIPR2: Hypermedia
Image Processing Reference - The Hypermedia Image Processing
Reference (HIPR) was developed at the
Department of Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh
in order to provide a set of computer-based tutorial materials for use
in teaching courses on image processing and machine vision.
KARMA - Developed
by an Australian radio astronomer (Richard Gooch at CSIRO)
KARMA is a toolkit for interprocess communications, authentication,
encryption, graphics display, user interface and manipulating the
KARMA network data structure. The package contains KarmaLib (the
structured libraries and API) and a large number of modules
(applications) to perform many standard tasks. A suite of
visualisation tools are distributed with the library.
BAYESIAN REASONING VERSUS
CONVENTIONAL STATISTICS IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS - G. D'Agostini
(1998)
Amara's Wavelet
Page
ELECTRONIC
STATISTICS TEXTBOOK (STATSOFT) (2002)
BOOTSTRAP, DATA PERMUTING AND EXTREME
VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS: GETTING THE MOST OUT OF SMALL SAMPLES -
S.P. Bhavsar
PROBABILITIES AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS
- Howard C. Berg (1983)
DIGITAL SKY SURVEYS: SOFTWARE TOOLS AND
TECHNOLOGIES - S. George Djorgovski and Robert J. Brunner
(2000)
STATISTICAL
METHODOLOGY FOR LARGE ASTRONOMICAL SURVEYS - E.D. Feigelson and
G.J. Babu (1997)
OPTICAL AND UV ASTRONOMY IN THE INTERNET AGE
- Daniel Golombek (1999)
REPRESENTATIONS OF WORLD COORDINATES
IN FITS - E. W. Greisen and M. R. Calabretta (2002)
Data Analysis
BriefBook - The Data Analysis BriefBook is a condensed handbook, or
an extended glossary, written in encyclopedic format, covering subjects in
statistics, computing, analysis, and related fields. It intends to be
both introduction and reference for data analysts, scientists and
engineers.
Particle Detector
BriefBook - The Particle Detector BriefBook is a condensed
handbook, or an
extended glossary, written in encyclopedic format, covering subjects
around particle detectors, the underlying physics, and the analysis of
their data. It intends to be both introduction for newcomers and
reference for physicists working in the field.
NUMERICAL RECIPES: --
With special permission from Cambridge University Press the Los Alamos
National Laboratory (host site) provides complete-text access to
Postscript and PDF files for the book "Numerical Recipes" in both the
FORTRAN77 and the C versions.
STATISTICS AND THE TREATMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL
DATA - W. R. Leo (1992)
VOStat:
STATISTICS FOR THE VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY [ON-LINE CALCULATOR] -
A. Mahabal (2003)
NOTES ON STATISTICS FOR PHYSICISTS,
REVISED - Jay Orear (1982)
POPRATIO: A
PROGRAM TO CALCULATE ATOMIC LEVEL POPULATIONS
IN ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMAS - A. I. Silva and S. M. Viegas (2000)
GRASIL: Code to compute the spectral evolution of stellar systems taking into account the effects of dust - G.L. Granato and L. Silva (2005)
DENSITY ESTIMATION FOR STATISTICS
AND DATA ANALYSIS - B.W. Silverman (1986)
THE TECHNIQUES OF LEAST SQUARES AND STELLAR
PHOTOMETRY WITH CCDs - Peter B. Stetson (1989)
PRACTICAL STATISTICS FOR ASTRONOMERS:
I. DEFINITIONS, THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION, DETECTION OF SIGNAL -
J.V. Wall (1979)
PRACTICAL STATISTICS FOR ASTRONOMERS:
II. CORRELATION, DATA-MODELLING AND SAMPLE COMPARISON - J.V. Wall
(1996)
CODED APERTURE
IMAGING IN HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS - J. in t'Zand
AN INTRODUCTION
TO ANALYSIS OF SINGLE-DISPERSION SPECTRA WITH IRAF - T. Zwitter and
U.Munari