Summer
School in Statistics for Astronomers & Physicists II
June 6-10, 2006

June 6, 2006 (Tuesday)
7:45 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
Registration and continental breakfast (102 Chem)
8:45 a.m - 9:00 a.m.
Opening
remarks (Craig
Weidemann, Vice President for Outreach)
9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m. Introduction to Penn State's Center
for Astrostatistics (G. J. Babu)
9:10 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Overview of
astrostatistics (Eric Feigelson)
Break
L
10:30 a.m.
- 12:15
p.m. Descriptive
statistics
(David Hunter)
Lunch break
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Correlation &
regression (Steven
Arnold)
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Linear regression issues in astronomy (Eric Feigelson)
Break
L
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Exploratory
data analysis and regression
(David Hunter)
L
5:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Evaluation (Eric
Feigelson)
June 7,
2006 (Wednesday)
8:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Laws of probability,
Bayes' theorem and the Central Limit Theorem (Donald Richards)
Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Estimation, confidence
intervals and tests of hypotheses (Donald
Richards)
Lunch
break
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Resampling Methods (G.
J.
Babu) Addendum
Break
L 3:00
p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Hypothesis
testing and bootstrapping (David
Hunter)
L
5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Evaluation (Eric
Feigelson)
June 8,
2006 (Thursday)
8:45 a.m. - 10:30
a.m. MLEs, Cramer-Rao
inequality, and Bayesian
information criterion (Donald Richards)
Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Model selection and
evaluation, goodness-of-fit tests and likelihood ratio tests (C. R. Rao)
Lunch
break
L
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Likelihood
Computations
(David Hunter)
Break
L
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Poisson & Gaussian
processes (Donald
Richards)
L
5:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Evaluation (Eric
Feigelson)
June 9,
2006 (Friday)
8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Multivariate Analysis
(Donald
Richards)
Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Cluster analysis (Donald
Richards)
Lunch
break
L
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Multivariate
Computations
(David Hunter,
Eric
Feigelson)
Break
4:00 p.m. - 5:15
p.m. Nonparametric
statistics (Thomas
Hettmansperger)
5:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Evaluation (Eric
Feigelson)
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Dinner at Cafe
Laura (Mateer
Building)
June 10,
2006 (Saturday)
8:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Bayesian analysis
(Thomas Loredo)
Break
L
10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. MCMC (Murali Haran)
Lunch
break
1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Visualization
software demonstration (Alfred
Inselberg). This is copyrighted
material not to be copied without written
permission from the author.
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Evaluation (Eric
Feigelson)
INSTRUCTORS:
- Steven Arnold, G. Jogesh Babu, Murali Haran, Thomas
Hettmansperger, David Hunter, C. R. Rao, and Donald Richards,
Professors
of Statistics, Penn State University
- Eric Feigelson is Professor of Astronomy &
Astrophysics, Penn State University
- Alfred Inselberg is Professor of Computer Science and
Applied
Mathematics, Tel Aviv University
- Thomas Loredo is Senior Research Associate in Astronomy,
Cornell
University
LOCATIONS:
- Registration & continental breakfast: Lobby of 102
Chemistry Building
- Classroom sessions: 102 Chemistry Building
- Hands-on computer sessions (designated L): 64
Willard Building
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