Modern Statistical Methods for Astronomy¶
Feigelson, E. D., & Babu, G. J. (2012). Modern Statistical Methods for Astronomy: With R Applications. Cambridge University Press.
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Primes¶
- Clustering
- Astronomy: clustering of stellar populations (open and globular clusters), galactic clusters, and the cosmic web's filamentary structure — identifying structure in the sky is largely a clustering problem.
This sourceTreats clustering / unsupervised structure-finding in astronomical data (stellar populations, galaxy clusters, spatial point processes), the density- and graph-based machinery shared with computer-vision segmentation.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
A general statistics monograph for astronomy covering classification, multivariate analysis and spatial point processes — the clustering-adjacent machinery — but not the specific astronomical structures the claim enumerates.
“The book presents fundamental results of probability theory and statistical inference, before exploring several fields of applied statistics, such as data smoothing, regression, multivariate analysis and classification, treatment of nondetections, time series analysis, and spatial point processes.”
- Astronomy: clustering of stellar populations (open and globular clusters), galactic clusters, and the cosmic web's filamentary structure — identifying structure in the sky is largely a clustering problem.
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