Statistical Methods for Astrophysics in Crete (SMAC)
This is the repository for a weekly statistics seminar held by the astronomy group within the University of Crete Department of Physics.
We meet on Mondays 11:45 pm - 1:15 pm in the Coffee Room.
Only Rules:
- No experience necessary. Weekly seminars should be designed with this in mind.
- Seminars should be interactive and participatory.
- All code, plots, and data will be publicly available.
Schedule:
Jan 23 - Distributions, hypothesis testing, and distribution comparisons (Paul, Giannis)
Feb 6 - Distributions: Workshop (Jeff, Gina)
Feb 13 - Uncertainty: Propagation, confidence intervals, bootsrapping, jackknife (Konstantinos, Steve)
Feb 20 - Uncertainty: Workshop (Maria, Ioanna)
Mar 6 - Regression analysis: Theory and methods (Dima, Kostas)
Mar 13 - Regression: Workshop (Andreas, Giannis)
Mar 27 - Interpolation: Theory and methods (Aris, Konstantina)
Apr 3 - Interpolation follow-up and density estimation (Gina)
May 8 - Likelihood functions: Probability calculus (Jeff)
May 15 - Likelihood functions: Workshop (Andreas, Konstantinos)
May 22 - Minimization techniques (Maria, Paul)
May 29 - Bayes intro (Ioanna, Konstantina)
Jun 12 - Bayes workshop (Kostas, Aris)
Jun 19 - Bayes extended and MCMC (Jeff)