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Non-Parametric Inference in Astrophysics
Larry Wasserman, Christopher J. Miller, Robert C. Nichol +6
We discuss non-parametric density estimation and regression for astrophysics problems. In particular, we show how to compute non-parametric confidence intervals for the location an…
A Non-parametric Analysis of the CMB Power Spectrum
Christopher J. Miller, Robert C. Nichol, Christopher Genovese +1
We examine Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature power spectra from the BOOMERANG, MAXIMA, and DASI experiments. We non-parametrically estimate the true power spectrum with…
Recent Dynamical Relaxation of Galaxy Clusters: Evidence for a Low- Universe
Adrian L. Melott, Scott W. Chambers, Christopher J. Miller
We argue that there has been substantial evolution in the ellipticity of rich galaxy clusters between 0 < z < 0.1, and suggest that this is additional evidence for a low matter-den…
Controlling the False Discovery Rate in Astrophysical Data Analysis
Christopher J. Miller, Christopher Genovese, Robert C. Nichol +6
The False Discovery Rate (FDR) is a new statistical procedure to control the number of mistakes made when performing multiple hypothesis tests, i.e. when comparing many data agains…
Acoustic Oscillations in the Early Universe and Today
Christopher J. Miller, Robert C. Nichol, David J. Batuski
During its first ~100,000 years, the universe was a fully ionized plasma with a tight coupling by Thompson scattering between the photons and matter. The trade--off between gravita…
Weak Lensing Measurements of 42 SDSS/RASS Galaxy Clusters
Erin Scott Sheldon, James Annis, Hans Bohringer +21
We present a lensing study of 42 galaxy clusters imaged in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) commissioning data. Cluster candidates are selected optically from SDSS imaging data and…