AAS 194: Special Session in Astrostatistics

The First Annual Special Session in AstroStatistics

at the Centennial Meeting of the American Astronomical Society

(194th AAS, Chicago, IL, May-June 1999)

RECENT REVOLUTIONS IN BAYESIAN AND RELATED LIKELIHOOD TECHNIQUES:

PROGRESS AT THE BOUNDARIES OF ASTRONOMY AND STATISTICS

LEAD SPEAKER:

• James Berger, ISDS, Duke University
  • Home page
• Quotes from his Historical Overview talk:
• ``Bayesian analysis, together with the new MCMC computational techniques allow, for the first time, a complete integration of scientific and statistical modeling.'' One might usefully add: ``Heretofor these have been considered in isolation, to the detriment of both.''...
• ``Today, the logical simplicity, computational advantages, and possibility of unified scientific/statistical modeling make Bayesian analysis especially attractive for analysis of problems in astrophysics.''

APPLICATIONS TALKS:

• Phil Gregory, University of British Columbia (Web page)
• David van Dyk, Harvard University Statistics (Web page)
• Eric Feigelson, Penn State University (Web page with stat links!)