Title Information Handling in Astronomy - Historical Vistas Author(s) Heck, Andre Publication Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2003. Description XII, 298 p : online resource Abstract Note This book is dedicated to the memory of Gis??le Mersch whose life ended prematurely in June 2002. Back in the 1970s, when few people were using them, Gis??le introduced me to the arcane secrets of then advanced m- tivariate statistical methodologies. I was already involved in more classical statistical studies undertaken at Paris Observatory with Jean Jung: developing and applying maxim- likelihood algorithms to stellar photometric and kinematic data in order to derive absolute luminosities, distances and velocities in the solar neighb- hood. But what could be envisaged with those methodologies was something of another dimension: for the first time, I could really see how to extract information from massive amounts of data without calling for elaborated physical or mechanical theories. Several pioneering applications were developed under Gis??le???s guidance and with her collaboration to study the delicate interface between spect- scopic and photometric data. Thus errors in spectral classifications were investigated as well as predictions of spectral classifications from pho- metric indices (see Heck 1976, Heck et al. 1977, Heck & Mersch 1980 and Mersch & Heck 1980), with very interesting results for the time. Gis??le also took part in studies of period determination algorithms (see Mersch & Heck 1981, Manfroid et al. 1983 and Heck et al. 1985) ISBN,Price 9780306480805 Keyword(s) 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques 2. Astronomy???Observations 3. COMPUTER SCIENCE 4. EBOOK 5. EBOOK - SPRINGER 6. EDUCATION 7. Education, general 8. MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS 9. Management of Computing and Information Systems 10. Observations, Astronomical 11. SOCIAL SCIENCES 12. Social Sciences, general 13. Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences 14. Statistics?? Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I10911     On Shelf