2017-06-15

Bayesian basics; red clump

A research highlight today was the first meeting of our Bayesian Data Analysis, 3ed reading group. It lasted a lot longer than an hour! We ended up going off into a tangent on the Fully Marginalized Likelihood vs cross-validation and Bayesian equivalents. We came up with some possible research projects there! The rest of the meeting was Bayesian basics. We decided on some problems we would do in Chapter 2. I hate to admit that the idea of having a problem set to do makes me nervous!

In the afternoon, Lauren Anderson (Flatiron) and I discussed our project to separate red-clump stars from red-giant-branch stars in the spectral domain. We have two approaches: The first is unsupervised: Can we see two spectral populations where the RC and RGB overlap? The second is supervised: Can we predict relevant asteroseismic parameters ina training set using the spectra?

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