... Archives . ... my first AAS. ... Believe it or not, I saw ANOVA (ANalysis Of VAriance) from a poster at AAS. This acronym was considered as one of very statistical jargons that one would never see in an astronomical meeting. ... The poster was made by an education graduate student who designed experiments on children and performed a statistical analysis (ANOVA) with collected data to find a factor that affects children (testing the significance of a factor via the F-test). ... Chandra Blog . ...