ESAC Statistics Workshop 2014 - ESAC Science Faculty
ESAC DATA analysis and Statistics Workshop 2014
The 2014 ESAC Data Analysis & Statistics Workshop took place on 27-31 October 2014 at ESAC.
Only the relevant information has been left on this page; the original webpage can be found here.
Only the relevant information has been left on this page; the original webpage can be found here.
Table of contents
- Tutors
- Notes
- Reading Material
- Agenda
- Attendees
- Post-workshop survey
- Organizing Committee
- Pictures
- Get notifications
- Funding
Tutors
- Guillaume Belanger (ESAC)
- Andy Pollock (ESAC)
- Luis Sarro
- Jake VanderPlas
notes AND Notebooks
- Jake VanderPlas (Monday, Thursday, Friday): Notebooks (on github)
- Luis Sarro (Tuesday & Wednesday): Notebooks (on github)
- Andy Pollock (Wednesday): Slides (PDF)
- Guillaume Belanger (Thursday): Notes (PDF)
READING MATERIAL
- Frequentism and Bayesianism: blog
- Fitting a model to data: http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4686
- Bayes in the sky: http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.4089
- On detecting transient phenomena: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.7408
VIDEO TUTORIALS AND LECTURES
MODEL FITTING
ipython notebooks (on github) with the codes from the video tutorials
Blog discussing the frequentist vs bayesian approaches here
MODEL FITTING AND MODEL SELECTION
ipython notebooks (on github) with the codes from the video tutorials
POISSONIAN STATISTICS
TIME DOMAIN ASTRONOMY
Time-domain astronomy lecture transcript (PDF)
DATA MINING AND MACHINE LEARNING
ipython notebooks (on github) with the codes from the video tutorials
Attendees
The list of the 72 registered attendees to this workshop are here. Attendance was good overall: between 37 and 55 people.
post-workshop survey
You can read here what the attendees said about the workshop.
Organizing committee
- Guillaume Belanger
- Hervé Bouy
- Carlos Gabriel
- Matteo Guainazzi
- Jean-Christophe Leyder
- Bruno Merín (chair) contact
- William O'Mullane
- Andy Pollock
- Elena Puga
- Álvaro Ribas
- Celia Sánchez
- Roland Vavrek
Pictures
Pictures from the workshop can be found here.
GET NOTIFICATIONS
You can join the mailing list about statistics at ESAC here.
FUNDING
The SOC warmly thanks the ESAC Science Faculty for fully funding this workshop.