Session 10. On Beyond Chi ^2 (and Bevington): Making the Most of Your Poisson Data

Workshop, Monday, November 6, 2000, 7:30-9:30pm, 8:30-10:00pm, Pago Pago Ballroom

10.01 Data Augmentation, Hierarchical Models, and Markov chain Monte Carlo

D. A. van Dyk (Statistis Department, Harvard University), Harvard Astrostatistics Working Group

10.02 Structure in Photon Maps and Time Series: A New Approach to Bayesian Blocks

J. D. Scargle (NASA Ames Research Center), J. P. Norris (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

10.03 Fitting models to spectra with small numbers of counts/bin.

K.A. Arnaud (U.Md and GSFC)