Survival analysis, or what to do with upper limits in astronomical surveys
Abstract
A field of applied statistics called survival analysis has been developed over several decades to deal with censored data, which occur in astronomical surveys when objects are too faint to be detected. How these methods can assist in the statistical interpretation of astronomical data are reviewed.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986STIN...8824551I
- Keywords:
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- Censored Data (Mathematics);
- Faint Objects;
- Sky Surveys (Astronomy);
- Statistical Analysis;
- Survival;
- Probability Density Functions;
- Sampling;
- Statistical Distributions;
- Astronomy