Tau.Neutrino said:
UAH professor helping to revolutionize Big Data astronomy, using statistics in a new way to decipher the universe
Newswise — The digital age has been a tremendous boon to the fields of both statistics and astronomy. However, according to Dr. Max Bonamente, a professor of physics and astronomy at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), most astronomers are not sufficiently trained to realize the substantial benefits to be gained by putting these disciplines together. He and his colleagues are working to change all that through pioneering research in the burgeoning field of astrostatistics.
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I agree that Astronomers are poor statisticians. I once found an error in the statistics of distance to a nearby brown dwarf. They’d applied a statistical correction that was inappropriate and thus placed a nearby brown dwarf too far away.
> Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) for analysis of cosmological events.
I studied that in undergraduate statistics.
It’s an incredibly slow method, so I developed a way of speeding it up, but with modern supercomputers it ought to be feasible, given that my speedup method has limitations when it comes to autocorrelation.