README.md

Five Days Workshop on Statistical Techniques in Astrophysics & Cosmology using Python

Organized by CUTN & Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, BDU, Tiruchirappalli

Funded by Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA)

I was among the invited speakers, along with Prof. H. S. Mani, Prof. T. R. Seshadri, Prof. V Madhurima, and Dr. Sampurn Anand and in this repository, I have included all the files, including the data file and Python notebook, that were covered in four lecture sessions and five hands-on sessions by me.

Day-1. October 16th 2023; 🔗

• Lecture+Hands-on Session-1
  • Introduction to Python-I

Day-2. October 17th 2023; 🔗

• Lecture+Hands-on Session-2
  • Introduction to Python-II

Day-3. October 18th 2023; 🔗

• Lecture+Hands-on Session-3
  • Introuction of Maximum Likelihood Method & Chi-Square
  • Parameter Estimation of a Straight Line Function using Chi-Square Minimization

Day-4. October 19th 2023; 🔗

• Lecture+Hands-on Session-4

  • Introuction of Bayesian Statistics
  • Parameter Estimation of a Straight Line Function using Bayesian Statistics-I

• Hands-on Session-5

  • Parameter Estimation of a Straight Line Function using Bayesian Statistics-II

Day-5. October 20th 2023; 🔗

• Project Discussion and Presentation

References for Further Reading

• Basics of Statistics

  • Introduction To Error Analysis by J. R. Taylor 🔗
  • Data analysis: a Bayesian tutorial by Devinderjit Sivia and John Skilling 🔗
  • Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences by P. R. Bevington and D. K. Robinson 🔗

• Statistical Cosmology

  • Statistical methods in cosmology by L. Verde 🔗
  • Statistical methods for cosmological parameter selection and estimation by A. R. Liddle 🔗
  • Bayesian Methods in Cosmology by R. Trotta 🔗

Contact Email: [email protected]

Copyright

© Darshan Kumar Beniwal, University of Delhi, 2023, Presented at STACUP-2023, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli.