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June 4,
2007 (Monday)
7:45 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
Registration, continental breakfast, and computer accounts
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 Center for Astrostatistics
(G. J. Babu)
9:10 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Overview of
astrostatistics
(Eric Feigelson)
Break
10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Descriptive
statistics
(David Hunter)
L
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Correlation &
regression (Jia
Li)
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Linear regression issues in astronomy (Eric Feigelson)
Break
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Exploratory
data analysis and regression
(David Hunter)
L
June 5,
2007 (Tuesday)
8:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Laws
of probability, Bayes' theorem and the Central Limit Theorem (Mosuk Chow)
Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Estimation, confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses
(William Harkness)
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Resampling
Methods (G.
J. Babu) Addendum
Break
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Hypothesis
testing and bootstrapping
(David Hunter)
L
5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Picnic
at Professor William Harkness's home
June
6, 2007 (Wednesday)
8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Cluster analysis I
(Jia Li)
Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Cluster analysis II (Jia Li)
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Multivariate analysis
(C. R.
Rao)
Break
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Multivariate
Computations
(David Hunter)
L
June 7,
2007 (Thursday)
8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Model selection and
evaluation, goodness-of-fit tests and likelihood ratio tests (C. R. Rao)
Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Bayesian analysis I (Thomas
Loredo)
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Time Series I (John Fricks)
Break
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Bayesian
analysis II (Thomas
Loredo)
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Dinner at Nittany
Lion Inn (Ballroom C)
June
8, 2007 (Friday)
8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Time Series II (John Fricks)
Break
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. MLEs,
Cramer-Rao
inequality, Bayesian
information criterion, Mixture Models and the EM Algorithm (Thomas
Hettmansperger)
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Likelihood
Computations
(David Hunter)
L
Break
3:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Spatial Statistics
(Murali
Haran)
June
9, 2007 (Saturday)
8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Nonparametric
statistics (Thomas
Hettmansperger)
Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. MCMC (Murali
Haran)
L
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Measurement Error
models (Brandon
Kelly)
INSTRUCTORS:
G. Jogesh Babu, Mosuk Chow, John Fricks, Murali Haran,
William Harkness, Thomas
Hettmansperger, David Hunter, Jia Li, and C. R. Rao (Statisticians, Penn State).
Eric Feigelson (Astronomer, Penn State).
Brandon Kelly (Astronomer, University of Arizona).
Thomas Loredo (Astronomer, 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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