posted on 2005-05-01, 00:00authored byWoncheol Jang, Christopher Miller, Andrew Connolly, Jeff Schneider, Christopher Genovese, Robert Nichol, Andrew Moore, Larry Wasserman
We discuss nonparametric density estimation and regression for astrophysics problems. In particular, we show how to compute nonparametric confidence intervals for the location and size of peaks of a function. We illustrate these ideas with recent data on the Cosmic Microwave Background. We also briefly discuss nonparametric Bayesian inference.