Practical Statistics for Astronomers

By J. Wall, C. Jenkins. 2003

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Fundamental Parameters of 87 Stars from the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer (2017, background): “The Astronomical Journal, 155:30 (16pp), 2018 January Baines et al. et al. 1992; Wall & Jenkins 2003).”
STRUCTURE AND KINEMATICS OF THE STELLAR HALOS AND THICK DISKS OF THE MILKY WAY BASED ON CALIBRATION STARS FROM SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY DR7 (2009, background): “…that they are independent and drawn from f , then the likelihood function can be written as: L(X1,X2, ...,Xn) = f (X1,X2, ...,Xn|α) = f (X1|α) f (X2|α)... f (Xn|α) = ∏ 1≤i≤n f (Xi|α) (2) In its classical form, this equation gives the likelihood of obtaining the data, given α (Wall & Jenkins 2003).”
Spatially Resolved Chemistry in Nearby Galaxies. I. The Center of IC 342 (2004, background): “In either case, the presence of this feature has been taken as evidence that HNCO is an abundant constituent of interstellar ices (eg., van Dishoeck & Blake 1998; van Broekhuizen, Keane, & Schutte 2004).”
TEMPO2, a new pulsar-timing package - I. An overview (2006, methodology): “It is also useful to compare the formal uncertainties described above with those obtained using a “bootstrapping” method (see, for instance, Wall & Jenkins 2003) which can produce more realistic parameter values and uncertainties when significant correlations between parameters are present.”
Cosmological constraints from the 100-deg2 weak-lensing survey (2007, methodology): “In addition we use the largest deep photometric redshift catalogue in existence (Ilbert et al. 2006) to provide accurate models for the redshift distribution of sources; we also account for the effects of sample variance in these distributions (Van Waerbeke et al. 2006).”
Relationship between Solar Energetic Particles and Properties of Flares and CMEs: Statistical Analysis of Solar Cycle 23 Events (2014, methodology): “The uncertainties on these coefficients were determined using the bootstrap method (Wall and Jenkins, 2003).”
The ATLAS3D project – IV. The molecular gas content of early-type galaxies (2011, methodology): “The use of the Kaplan–Meier methodology merits some discussion, as it assumes the censoring pattern is random (e.g. Wall & Jenkins 2003).”
How to form planetesimals from mm-sized chondrules and chondrule aggregates (2015, methodology): “The Kolmogorov-Smirnov (Smirnov 1948; Wall & Jenkins 2003) test gives a standard way to compare F and G.”
A simple test for periodic signals in red noise (2004, background): “See 1 The DFT at the Nyquist frequency is always real when N is even so the periodogram at this frequency is distributed as χ21, i.e. with one degree of freedom. also Scargle (1982), Leahy et al. (1983), Wall & Jenkins (2003) and Groth (1975) for further discussion of this point.”
KiDS-450: cosmological parameter constraints from tomographic weak gravitational lensing (2016, methodology): “We then construct a Jackknife covariance estimate from the variance between the partial estimates (Wall & Jenkins 2012).”
HerMES: deep number counts at 250 μm, 350 μm and 500 μm in the COSMOS and GOODS-N fields and the build-up of the cosmic infrared background (2012, unknown): “…the CIB as a function of redshift at 250µm (top), 350µm (center), and 500µm (bottom), and comparison with the models of Béthermin et al. (2011) in red, Valiante et al. (2009) in green, Le Borgne et al. (2009) in violet, Gruppioni et al. (2011) in orange, Rahmati & van der Werf (2011) in light…”
THE COSMIC EVOLUTION OF FERMI BL LACERTAE OBJECTS (2013, unknown): “, there were more blazars in the past; Dunlop & Peacock 1990) up to a redshift cutoff that depends on luminosity (e.g., Padovani et al. 2007; Wall 2008; Ajello et al. 2009; Ajello et al. 2012), the evolution of BL Lac objects remains a matter of debate.”
Gamma-ray bursts as standard candles to constrain the cosmological parameters (2006, methodology): “rmani et al. ([41]) proposed a more sophisticated method which makes use of both these conditions, i.e. the existence and uniqueness of the correlation. The method is based on the Bayes theorem (e.g. [118]). The basic steps are: (1) choose a cosmology Ω and ﬁt the correlation; (2) test this correlat”