... Using the central limit theorem, the total noise can be approximated by a Gaussian or normal distribution which has the frequency function : . ... where is the mean intensity of the source. ... In the statistical analysis of the probability distribution of data several estimators based on moments are used. ... For a normal distribution, these moments are and while for a Poisson distribution are and . Besides these moments other estimators are used to describe a distribution e.g. median and mode . ...

... casa::Normal . ... Normal ( RNG *gen, Double mean=0.0, Double variance=1.0) . Construct a random number generator for a normal distribution. virtual . ... Returns a value from the normal distribution. virtual Double . ... These function allow you to manipulate the parameters (mean & variance) described above through the base class. virtual Vector < Double > . ... The second and third arguments define the parameters for this distribution as described in the synopsis. virtual casa::Normal::~Normal . ...

http ://hea-www.harvard.edu/ AstroStat /slog/2008/eotw-chisq- distribution / Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http ://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http ://hea-www.harvard.edu/ AstroStat /slog/2008/eotw-chisq- distribution /comment-page-1/#comment-308 Alex Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:52:08 +0000 http ://hea-www.harvard.edu/ ... Thanks, Aneta, very useful comment. ...

... We have assumed a constant in time star formation rate and the total number of stars in the Galaxy, , to be such that the total mass of the galaxy is ; assuming the Salpeter mass function   , we get . ... This number agrees with a standard estimation of the galactic star formation rate of order of per year. In each run of calculations, we trace the evolution of binaries with initial parameters randomly distributed according to the chosen initial laws. ...

Following are instructions to build and install the programs in this distribution. Make sure that you have all necessary tools for building executables. ... The automatic build process expects a configuration file called Config.local . ... The configuration file specifies the directory in which to install the binaries, as well as control over the generation of debugging code and reference clock support. ... Cleans out object files, programs and temporary files. make distclean . ...

... Within SAS, a tool is available to check the pile-up fraction in the pn data: epatplot . This tool compares the observed pattern distributions (derived from a pn calibrated and concatenated even list) with the calibrated models. ... The lower panel is the key element for the evaluation of the pile-up fraction: it shows the observed distribution of pattern as a function of energy (PI channel in Analog-Digital Units ), using the same color code. ... Pages maintained by SAS librarian . ...

... Routines for accessing I/O ports are in /usr/include/asm/io.h (or linux/include/asm-i386/io.h in the kernel source distribution). ... Before you access any ports, you must give your program permission to do so. This is done by calling the ioperm() function (declared in unistd.h , and defined in the kernel) somewhere near the start of your program (before any I/O port accesses). ... For example, ioperm(0x300, 5, 1) would give access to ports 0x300 through 0x304 (a total of 5 ports). ...

When the SOGS Unix systems go down due to difficulties with the system or power failures, it is necessary to keep all users informed of the down time. Since email cannot be used in this situation, a Phone Mail distribution list has been created with each SOGS Unix user's name and extension. ... When prompted, enter the Distribution List number: 500 . ... Of course, if SOGS Unix is down, its unlikely you'll be able to get to this Web page, so just remember the phone list number! ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Quasi-stationary electron distributions for the different values of the particle escape time. ... The electron-cyclotron maser instability is widespread in the Universe, producing, e.g., radio emission of the magnetized planets and cool substellar objects. ... The model used takes into account the radiation escape from the source region and the particle flow through this region. ...

... Fitting the observed dependence includes calculations of the polarization cross-sections averaged over particles orientation and size distribution, their normalization and the comparison of obtained dependencies with Serkowski's curve representing observational data for a chosen star. ... Variations of the polarization factors with wavelength are shown in Fig. 16 for homogeneous spheroidal particles with PF orientation. ... The distinction between prolate and oblate spheroids is also clearly seen. ...

Median Twilight Image . all frames normalized by their median before averaging and corrected for 4-port structure) . Median of Normalized Twilight Images at Rotator Angle 0 . Median of Normalized Twilight Images at Random Rotator Angle . Time Frame and Rotator Angle Distribution . B_UT2_2CCD: 134 frames . ... distribution of rotator angles) . U_UT2_2CCD: 106 frames . ... uncorrected median twilight image) . B_UT2: 298 frames . ... U_UT2: 246 frames . ... B_UT3: 266 frames . ...