2008 Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers; June 9-14, 2008; Pennsylvania State U., College Park

AST-0808877 Babu2008天文学家统计暑期学校；2008年6月9-14日；宾夕法尼亚州立大学，学院公园观测天文学家不断面对一系列具有挑战性的统计问题。由于本科生和研究生课程的结构，美国天文学家在统计学方面的培训不是很好，他们中的大多数人通过物理科学家编写的书籍和为他们编写的书籍来学习基本方法。先进的方法严重未得到充分利用：统计学是一种可用的技术，应该加以利用，以促进天文学和天体物理学的需求。2008年中级统计推断青年天文学家暑期学校有助于缩小这一教育差距，延续了该小组于2005年在宾夕法尼亚州立大学为天文学家开办的为期一周的密集统计暑期学校。该学院在统计的许多领域提供了广泛的基础概念和广泛的结果方法。经验丰富的统计学教授将教授一门创新的课程，并伴随着天文数据集的应用软件教程。这将对许多青年科研人员的培养产生实质性影响。

AST-0808877Babu2008 Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers; June 9-14, 2008; Pennsylvania State University, College ParkObservational astronomers continually confront a wide range of challenging statistical problems. Due to the structure of undergraduate and graduate curricula, U.S. astronomers are not well trained in statistics, and most of them learn elementary methods through books written by and for physical scientists. Advanced methods are badly underutilized: statistics is an available technology that should be tapped to advance the needs of astronomy and astrophysics. The 2008 Summer School for young astronomers in statistical inference at an intermediate level helps to alleviate this educational gap, continuing the intensive week-long Summer Schools in Statistics for Astronomers, initiated in 2005 by the group at Pennsylvania State. The school gives a broad exposure to fundamental concepts and a wide range of resulting methods across many fields of statistics. Experienced statistics professors will teach an innovative curriculum, accompanied by software tutorials with applications to astronomical datasets. This will have a substantial impact on the training of many young researchers.