|
June 9,
2008 (Monday)
7:45 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Registration, continental breakfast, and computer accounts
8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Opening remarks
(Daniel Larson, Dean, Eberly College of Science)
8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Overview of Summer School
(G. J. Babu) [ppt]
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Overview of
astrostatistics
(Eric Feigelson)
Break
10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Descriptive
statistics
(Derek Young)
L
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Correlation and regression (Mosuk Chow)
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
(Derek Young)
L
June 10,
2008 (Tuesday)
8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Laws
of probability (Mosuk Chow)
Break
10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Estimation, confidence intervals & tests of hypotheses
(James Rosenberger)
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. MLEs, BIC, Mixture Models (Thomas
Hettmansperger)
Break
3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Likelihood
Computations and Random Numbers
(Derek Young)
L
June
11, 2008 (Wednesday)
8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Nonparametric
statistics (Thomas
Hettmansperger)
Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Bayesian
analysis (Thomas
Loredo)
Trip to Penns Cave
5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Picnic at Professor William Harkness's home
June 12,
2008 (Thursday)
8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Multivariate analysis
(James Rosenberger)
Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Multivariate
Computations
(Derek Young)
L
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Bootstrap, Bootstrap for Goodness of fit (G.
J. Babu)
Break
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Hypothesis
testing and bootstrapping
(Derek Young)
L2
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Dinner at Nittany
Lion Inn (Boardroom 1)
June 13,
2008 (Friday)
8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Model selection,
evaluation & likelihood ratio tests (Bruce Lindsay)
Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Time Series and Stochastic Processes I (John Fricks)
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Data Mining with SVM (Giuseppe Longo)
Break
3:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. MCMC (Murali
Haran)
L
June
14, 2008 (Saturday)
8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Spatial Statistics
(Murali
Haran)
Break
10:45 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Time Series and Stochastic
Processes II (Eric Feigelson)
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Cluster analysis
(Jia Li)
INSTRUCTORS:
G. Jogesh Babu, Mosuk Chow, John Fricks, Murali Haran, Bruce Lindsay, Thomas
Hettmansperger, Jia Li, and James Rosenberger (Statisticians, Penn State).
Eric Feigelson (Astronomer, Penn State).
Giuseppe Longo (Astronomer, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II).
Thomas Loredo (Astronomer, Cornell University).
Derek Young (Statistician, Bechtel Bettis, Inc.). Groendyke Christophe and Scott Roths (Graduate Students, Penn State).
LOCATIONS:
- Registration & continental breakfast: Lobby of 102
Chemistry Building
- Classroom sessions: 102 Chemistry Building
- Hands-on computer sessions: 111 Boucke Building (designated L) and 112 Boucke Building
(designated L2)
LECTURE NOTES
|