... The test statistic used for detection is a special case of a function of random variables. ... Important examples of the test statistics are signal variances . ... Usually, the test statistics S in TSA measure a ratio of two variances. ... Since models depend on frequency (or time lag l ), so do the variances and and test statistics S . The statistics we recommend for use in the frequency domain are the ones introduced by Scargle and the Analysis of Variance (AOV) statistics. ...

Next: Star Formation Rate and Up: No Title Previous: Calculation of Evolutionary Tracks . To start calculations, we choose the distributions of the initial binary parameters: the mass of the primary ZAMS component, , binary mass ratio, , orbital separation a . ... whereas the mass ratio distribution is not. ... The zero assumption often made is that the mass ratio distribution has a flat shape, that is binaries with a high mass ratio occur as frequently as those with equal masses. ...

... We demonstrate through numerical simulations that model parameters estimated with our technique are essentially bias-free, even when the average number of counts per bin is 1. ... The IW technique avoids such biases by estimating through successive iterations, where for each iteration, j, , and the best-fit parameters are determined by minimization of . ... In our sample, we find that the minimum values and best-fit parameters converge after about 6 iterations. ...

http ://hea-www.harvard.edu/ AstroStat /slog/2008/eotw-chisq- distribution / Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http ://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http ://hea-www.harvard.edu/ AstroStat /slog/2008/eotw-chisq- distribution /comment-page-1/#comment-308 Alex Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:52:08 +0000 http ://hea-www.harvard.edu/ ... Thanks, Aneta, very useful comment. ...

... Parameter . ... yes . typelist of files . A list of spectrum files from a set of observations, referring to one RGS instrument and one spectral order. These spectra files must be produced using the attstyle=user and associated parameters from a call to rgsproc . ... list of files . ... If this parameter is set to yes, the spectra files of the input lists will be combined to produced a combined spectrum file each for both spectra and background spectra files. filermf . ... file . ...

... use frames summary class fields routine details file attributes . ... AUTHOR: Craig B. Markwardt, NASA/GSFC Code 662, Greenbelt, MD 20770 craigm@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov UPDATED VERSIONs can be found on my WEB PAGE: http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/idl.html . PURPOSE: Compute confidence limits for chi-square statistic . ... CALLING SEQUENCE: DELCHI = MPCHILIM(PROB, DOF, [/SIGMA, /CLEVEL, /SLEVEL ]) . ... result = mpchilim( p , dof , sigma= sigma , clevel= clevel , slevel= slevel ) . ...