Dept of Physics and Astronomy
Astronomy A345H
Session 2006-07
Astronomical
Data Analysis part I

 

 

Dr Martin Hendry
Room 312 Kelvin Building

10 Lectures, beginning October 2006

Course Aims and ILOs

Guidelines on what is examinable
 

Lecture Notes
 

Section 1: Introduction and Overview;  Why ADA1?	Handout	All slides
Section 2:  A Basic Statistical Toolbox	Handout	All slides
Section 3:  Model Fitting	Handout	All slides
Section 4: Monte Carlo Methods	Handout	All slides
Section 5: Fourier Methods	Handout	All slides
Section 6: Data Acquisition	Handout	All slides

Example Sheets

 

Examples 1	Examples 2	Examples 3	Examples 4	Examples 5
Model answers	Model answers	Model answers	Model answers	Model answers

 
   
   
   
 

Additional Handouts 

Proof of the functional form of the Poisson pdf   (non-examinable)

Supplementary notes on (frequentist) hypothesis testing

Please send any comments or questions on ADA-I to Martin Hendry