Yesterday, I gavea talk on inferring the number of components in a mixture at the international online IAU-IAA Astrostats and Astroinfo seminar. Which generated (uniformly) interesting and relevant questions for astronomical challenges. As pointed out by my Cornell friend Tom Loredo, it is unfortunately clashing with the ISI quadrenial Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy meeting help at Penn State.
Archive for mixture analysis
off to Padova??? [for its 800th anniversary]
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Aula Magna, Bo’ Palace, conference, Galileo, infinite mixture, Italy, mixture analysis, Padova, statistical evidence, Università degli studi di Padova on September 21, 2022 by xi'an
handbook of mixture analysis [review]
Posted in Books, R, Statistics with tags book review, Chapman & Hall, CRC Press, handbook of mixture analysis, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, mixture analysis, mixtures of distributions, R, reference, Series A on March 19, 2021 by xi'an
“In my opinion, the editors have done an excellent job when selecting the contents of the handbook and putting the different chapters together. For instance, this can be appreciated by the fact that, despite the large number of authors and contributions, all chapters have kept the same notation. Furthermore, in addition to a sound description of the underlying theory and methods, several chapters include information about how to fit the presented models using the R programming language. However, I missed pointers to repositories to download the code and datasets for some of the examples used in the book. To sum up, this is an excellent reference book on mixture models.” Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, JRSS A, 2021
