Statistical Challenges in Astronomy

BAYESIAN METHODS // Statistical Challenges in Medieval (and Later) Astronomy / Power from Understanding the Shape of Measurement: Progress in Bayesian Inference for Astrophysics / Hierarchical Models, Data Augmentation, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo / Bayesian Adaptive Exploration / Bayesian Model Selection and Analysis for Cepheid Star Oscillations / Bayesian Multiscale Methods for Poisson Count Data // LARGE ASTRONOMICAL DATASETS // NASA's Astrophysics Data Environment / Statistical and Astronomical Challenges in the Sloan Digital Sky Survewy / Challenges for Cluster Analysis in a Virtual Observatory / COSMOLOGY // Statistics of Galaxy Clustering / Analyzing Large Data Sets in Cosmology / The Cosmic Foam: Stochastic Geometry and Spatial Clustering across the Universe / Statistics and the Cosmic Microwave Background / Inference in Microwave Cosmology: A Frequentist Perspective / Nonparametric Inference in Astrophysics // MULTIVARIATE CLUSTERING // Random Forests: Finding Quasars / Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis: A Case Study on Quasar Data / Computational Astrostatistics: Fast and Efficient Tools for Analyzing Huge Astronomical Data Sources / Clustering in High-Dimensional Data Spaces // TIME SERIES AND IMAGE ANALYSIS // Advanced Tools for Astronomical Time Series and Image Analysis / Frequency Estimation and Generalized Lomb-Scargle Periodograms / Multiscale Methods in Astronomy / Threshold Selection in Transform Shrinkage / The Statistical Challenges of Wavelet-Based Source Detection // SUMMARIES // Reflections on SCMA III / An Astronomer's Perspective on SCMA III // CONTRIBUTED PAPERS