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

babu2008天文学家统计暑期学校；2008年6月9日至14日；宾夕法尼亚州立大学帕克学院观测天文学家不断面临着各种具有挑战性的统计问题。由于本科和研究生课程的结构，美国天文学家在统计学方面没有受过很好的训练，他们中的大多数人通过物理科学家撰写的或为物理科学家撰写的书籍来学习基本的方法。先进的方法没有得到充分利用：统计是一种可用的技术，应该加以利用，以促进天文学和天体物理学的需要。2008年为年轻天文学家开设的中级统计推断暑期学校有助于缓解这一教育差距，延续了2005年由宾夕法尼亚州立大学小组发起的为期一周的天文学家统计暑期学校。学校提供了广泛的基本概念和广泛的统计领域的结果方法。经验丰富的统计学教授将教授一门创新的课程，并辅以应用于天文数据集的软件教程。这将对许多年轻研究人员的培训产生重大影响。

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.