Statistical Challenges in Astronomy

Statistical Challenge in Medieval (and Later) Astronomy.- Power from Understanding the Shape of Measurement: Progress in Bayesian Inference for Astrophysics.- Hierarchical Models, Data Augmentation, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo.- Bayesian Adaptive Exploration.- Bayesian Model Selection and Analysis for Cepheid Star Oscillations.- Bayesian Multiscale Methods for Poisson Count Data.- NASA’s Astrophysics Data Environment.- Statistical and Astronomical Challenges in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.- Challenges for Cluster Analysis in a Virtual Observatory.- Statistics of Galaxy Clustering.- Analyzing Large Data Sets in Cosmology.- The Cosmic Foam: Stochastic Geometry and Spatial Clustering across the Universe.- Statistics and the Cosmic Microwave Background.- Inference in Microwave Cosmology: A Frequentist Perspective.- Nonparametric Inference in Astrophysics.- Random Forests: Finding Quasars.- Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis: A Case Study On Quasar Data.- Computational AstroStatistics: Fast and Efficient Tools for Analysing Huge Astronomical Data Sources.- Clustering in High-Dimensional Data Spaces.- Advanced Tools for Astronomical Time Series and Image Analysis.- Frequency Estimation and Generalized Lomb-Scargle Periodograms.- Multiscale Methods in Astronomy.- Threshold Selection in Transform Shrinkage.- The Statistical Challenges of Wavelet-Based Source Detection.- Reflections on SCMA III.- An Astronomer’s Perspective on SCMA III.- Ensembles of Classifiers.- A Model for Brightest Galaxies Using Extreme Value Statistics.- New Statistical Goodness-of-Fit Techniques in Noisy Inhomogeneous Regression Problems with an Application to the Problem of Recovering of the Luminosity Density of the Milky Way from Surface Brightness Data.- Measuring the GalaxyPower Spectrum with Multiresolution Decomposition.- Finding Gamma-Ray Pulsars with Sparse Bayes Blocks.- Analysis of the Fractal Structure of the Horsehead Nebula.- On the Statistics of the Gravitational Field.- Cross-identification of Very Large Catalogues.- Minimal Spanning Tree Technique.- A Statistical Chromatic Study of Nearby Galaxies.- Detection of Non-Gaussianity on the Sphere Using Spherical Wavelets.- Characterising Anomalous Transport in Accretion Disks from X-ray Observations.- A Bayesian Analysis of the Radio Binary LS I +61°303.- Accounting for Absorption Lines in High Energy Spectra.- ?2-method: An Automatic Classification Technique.- Wavelet Analysis of a Large Period Change in the Mira Variable R Cen.- Nonparametric Statistical Models of Astronomical Systems.- Likelihood Estimation of Gamma Ray Bursts Duration Distribution.- Nonparametric Density Estimation and Galaxy Clustering.- Teaching Bayesian Statistics Through Simulation.- New MCMC Methods to Address Pile-up in the Chandra X-ray Observatory.- Modeling Stellar Microflares.- Canaries in the Data Mine: Improving Trained Classifiers.- Wavelet Analysis of Heteroscedastic, Unevenly Spaced Data: The Case of OJ 287 Revisited.- Estimating Large-Scale Structure From QSO Absorbers: Using Across-Line Information.- Point Source Detection on the Sphere Using Wavelets and Optimal Filters.- Constraining the Cosmological Constant from Large-Scale Redshift-Space Clustering.- Multivariate Monte Carlo Methods with Clusters of Galaxies.- A New Tool for Automated Classification of Astronomical Images.- Parameter Estimation via Neural Networks.- Correlations at Large Scale.- Constraining Cosmological Models by the Cluster Mass Functions.- Analysing Cosmic Large Scale Structure using Surrogate Data.- DelaunayRecovery of Cosmic Density and Velocity Probes.- A Large Proper Motion Survey of the Pleiades Cluster.- Bayesian Spectral Analysis of ,MAD- Stars.- Stellar Membership in Open Clusters Using Mixture Densities.- Comparison of Object Detection Procedures for XMM-Newton Images.- Astronomical Aspects of Multifractal Point-Pattern Analysis: Application to the DENIS/2MASS Near-Infrared and BATSE Gamma-Ray Data.- Higher-order Correlations of Cosmological Fluctuation Fields.- Bayesian Multiscale Deconvolution Applied to Gamma-ray Spectroscopy.