Fwd: Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers, June 1-6, 2009

[Rob Seaman]

...and while we're talking workshops, here's one before the  
registration deadline :-)

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> From: G Jogesh Babu <babu at stat.psu.edu>
> Date: March 24, 2009 11:58:08 AM GMT-07:00
> To: seaman at noao.edu
> Subject: Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers, June 1-6, 2009
>
>
>                       First Announcement
>
>          Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers V
>                         June 1-6, 2009
>                     Penn State University
>              http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su09/
>
> The fifth annual Penn State Summer School in Statistics for
> Astronomers will be held at Penn State. This is a 6-day course
> in fundamental statistical inference designed to provide
> physical scientists, particularly young researchers in astronomy,
> with a strong conceptual foundation in modern statistics and to
> develop a repertoire of well-established techniques applicable
> to observational astronomy. Classroom instruction is interspersed
> with hands-on analysis of astronomical data using the public-domain
> R software package. The course is taught by a team of statistics
> and astronomy professors with opportunity for discussion of
> methodological issues.
>
> Statistical techniques covered include:
>
>  * exploratory data analysis
>  * hypothesis testing and parameter estimation
>  * regression & confidence interval estimation
>  * model selection & goodness-of-fit
>  * maximum likelihood methods & Bayes' Theorem
>  * non-parametric methods
>  * Monte Carlo methods
>  * Poisson processes
>  * time series analysis
>
> INTERESTED PARTICIPANTS SHOULD REGISTER AT http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su09/reg.html
> REGISTRATION DEADLINE:  May 1, 2009 (or when the enrollment limit  
> reaches)
> REGISTRATION FEE: $250.
>
> The 2009 Summer School is organized by Penn State University's
> Center for Astrostatistics. It will be modeled on the last four Penn
> State Summer Schools and the 2008 Indian Institute of Astrophysics-
> Penn State Summer School. See http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/
> for past lecture notes. This Web site http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su09/
> also gives information on travel, lodging, and visas.

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