2 papers
astro-ph2001
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…
astro-ph2000
Computational AstroStatistics: Fast Algorithms and Efficient Statistics for Density Estimation in Large Astronomical Datasets
R. C. Nichol, A. J. Connolly, A. W. Moore +3
We present initial results on the use of Mixture Models for density estimation in large astronomical databases. We provide herein both the theoretical and experimental background f…