Statistics for astronomy graduate course

Lecture hand outs 2008/9

• Lecture 1 handout
• Lecture 2 handout
• Lecture 3 handout
• Lecture 4 handout
• Lecture 5 handout
• Lecture 6 handout
• Lecture 7 handout
• Lecture 8 handout

Links

• Mike Irwin’s lectures: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mike/lect.html
• Penn Astro-Statistics pages: http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/
• Steve Gull’s page on Bayesian radio-astronomy: http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~steve/algor2008/index.html
• Reviews by the “Particle Data Group”: http://pdg.lbl.gov/2008/reviews/probrpp.pdf, http://pdg.lbl.gov/2008/reviews/statrpp.pdf, http://pdg.lbl.gov/2008/reviews/monterpp.pdf (all with a focus on particle physics)
• David MacKay’s book Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/

Materials

FIRST cut-outs of 720 early-type galaxies from a volume-limited sample based on the SDSS-MGS: http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~bn204/nvc/20081022/early-first.tar.gz