Astrostatistics: Goodness-of-Fit and All That!
During the International X-ray Summer School, as a project presentation, I tried to explain the inadequate practice of о‡^2 statistics in astronomy. If your best fit is biased (any misidentification of a model easily causes such bias), do not use о‡^2 statistics to get 1оѓ error for the 68% chance of capturing the true parameter.
Later, I decided to do further investigation on that subject and this paper came along: Astrostatistics: Goodness-of-Fit and All That! by Babu and Feigelson.
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