First announcement
Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers XIII (June 5-9 2017)
For the 13th year, Penn State's Center for Astrostatistics is offering its week-long Summer School in statistical methodology for astronomy. The School provides an intensive program in statistical inference covering topics like principles of probability and inference, Bayesian analysis, nonparametrics, regression, bootstrap resampling, regression and model selection, multivariate clustering and classification, spatial statistics, and time series analysis. Extensive training in the public domain R statistical software environment is provided.
Lectures and tutorials are presented by experienced educators in statistics and astrostatistics. Participants exercise the methods with astronomical datasets illustrating realistic challenges faced in contemporary research. Software and lecture notes are provided, participants should bring a laptop computer. Registration and lodging costs are kept as low as possible.
Registration deadline: May 1 2017 or when the class is full