A Statistical Method for Estimating Luminosity Functions Using Truncated Data

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal Vol. 661; no. 2; pp. 703 - 713
• Main Author: Schafer, Chad M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago, IL IOP Publishing 01.06.2007; University of Chicago Press
• Subjects: Astronomy; Earth, ocean, space; Exact sciences and technology; Statistical method; Quasars; quasars: general; Luminosity function

The observational limitations of astronomical surveys lead to significant statistical inference challenges. One such challenge is the estima measurements from an irregularly truncated sample of objects. This is a bivariate density estimation problem; we develop here a statist for the bivariate densi...