This webpage provides information for the 4th Heidelberg Summer School 2009
hosted by the
International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astronomy and
Cosmic Physics at the University of Heidelberg.
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Organization:
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IMPRS for Astronomy and
Cosmic Physics at the University of Heidelberg, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, University of Heidelberg | |
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Lecturers:
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David W. Hogg, New York University Ian McHardy, University of Southampton William H. Press, University of Texas, Austin | |
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When & where:
| The 4th Heidelberg Summer School took take place August 10-14, 2009 at the "Max-Planck Haus" (Max Planck building) in Heidelberg, Germany | |
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Scope of the School:
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The goals of the IMPRS Summer schools are: The topic of this school, Statistical Inferences from Astrophysical Data, is of essential interest for almost all astronomical and astrophysical projects. Examples are huge dates sets from large-scale surveys, similar imformation from corresponding numerical simulations, the limit of sparse data coverage in time or space, incomplete data, the searching for periodicities in (unevenly) sampled data ... Topics covered by the main lecturers include
Further topics were Monte Carlo approaches, maximum likelyhood techniques, parametric tests, biases in censored/incomplete data, or Bayesian statistics applications.
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Summer school poster: |
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