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ABSTRACT

1.THE GLORIOUS HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY AND STATISTICS

2.STATISTICAL NEEDS OF ASTRONOMY TODAY

3.ASTROSTATISTICS TODAY

4.THE VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY: A NEW IMPERATIVE FOR ASTROSTATISTICS

5.SOME GRAND METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES FOR THE COMING DECADE

5.1.Multivariate analysis with measurement errors and censoring

5.2.Statistical inference and visualization with very-large-N datasets

5.3.A cookbook for construction of likelihoods and Bayesian computation

5.4.Links between astrophysical theory and wavelets

5.5.Time series models for astrophysical phenomena

6.INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED TO ADVANCE ASTROSTATISTICS

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