Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Bayesian Models for Astrophysical Data

Using R, JAGS, Python, and Stan

Av Joseph M. Hilbe, Rafael S. de Souza, Emille E. O. Ishida

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Beskrivning

This comprehensive guide to Bayesian methods in astronomy enables hands-on work by supplying complete R, JAGS, Python, and Stan code, to use directly or to adapt. It begins by examining the normal model from both frequentist and Bayesian perspectives and then progresses to a full range of Bayesian generalized linear and mixed or hierarchical models, as well as additional types of models such as ABC and INLA. The book provides code that is largely unavailable elsewhere and includes details on interpreting and evaluating Bayesian models. Initial discussions offer models in synthetic form so that readers can easily adapt them to their own data; later the models are applied to real astronomical data. The consistent focus is on hands-on modeling, analysis of data, and interpretations that address scientific questions. A must-have for astronomers, its concrete approach will also be attractive to researchers in the sciences more generally.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2017-04-27
Mått: 193 x 253 x 24 mm
Vikt: 1 100 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 408
Förlag: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107133082

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Matematisk statistik

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Joseph M. Hilbe is Solar System Ambassador with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Arizona State University, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii. He is currently President of the International Astrostatistics Association (IAA) and was awarded the IAA's 2016 Outstanding Contributions to Astrostatistics medal, the association's top award. Hilbe is an elected Fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the IAA and is a full member of the American Astronomical Society. He has authored nineteen books on statistical modeling, including leading texts on modeling count and binomial data. His book, Modeling Count Data (Cambridge, 2014) received the 2015 PROSE honorable mention for books in mathematics. Rafael S. de Souza is a researcher at Eötvos Loránd University, Budapest. He is currently Vice-President for development of the International Astrostatistics Association (IAA) and was awarded the IAA's 2016 Outstanding Publication in Astrostatistics award. He has authored dozens of scientific papers, serving as the leading author for over twenty of them. Emille E. O. Ishida is a researcher at the Université Clermont-Auvergne (Université Blaise Pascal), France. She is cochair of the Cosmostatistics Initiative and coordinator of its Python-related projects. She is a specialist in machine learning applications to astronomy with special interests in type Ia supernovae spectral characterization, classification, and cosmology. She has been the lead author of numerous articles in prominent astrophysics journals and currently serves as chair of the IAA public relations committee.

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'This volume is a very welcome addition to the small but growing library of resources for advanced analysis of astronomical data. Astronomers are often confronted with complex constrained regression problems, situations that benefit from computationally intensive Bayesian approaches. The authors provide a unique and sophisticated guide with tutorials in methodology and software implementation. The worked examples are impressive. Many astronomers use Python and will benefit from the less familiar capabilities of R, Stan, and JAGS for Bayesian analysis. I suspect the work will also be useful to scientists in other fields who venture into the world of Bayesian computational statistics.' Eric D. Feigelson, Pennsylvania State University, author of Modern Statistical Methods for Astronomy

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