The issue also looks at Wordle, the gender breakdown of most Significance writers, college admissions during COVID-19, women and astronomers, and data-driven advertising.
astronomers
Conference Links Statisticians, Data Analysts, Astronomers
Carnegie Mellon University hosted more than 120 researchers in June for Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy VI, bringing together experts in statistical methods and machine learning with astronomers and cosmologists to discuss pressing inference problems facing this data-rich field.
Astrostatistics: A New Interest Group
Jessi Cisewski, David Van Dyk, and Thomas C. M. Lee discuss a dynamic new subdiscipline that is rich in data, sophisticated models, and interdisciplinary activities: astrostatistics.