Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: On the future of astrostatistics: statistical foundations and
  statistical practice   This paper summarizes a presentation for a panel discussion on "The Future of
Astrostatistics" held at the Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V
conference at Pennsylvania State University in June 2011. I argue that the
emerging needs of astrostatistics may both motivate and benefit from
fundamental developments in statistics. I highlight some recent work within
statistics on fundamental topics relevant to astrostatistical practice,
including the Bayesian/frequentist debate (and ideas for a synthesis),
multilevel models, and multiple testing. As an important direction for future
work in statistics, I emphasize that astronomers need a statistical framework
that explicitly supports unfolding chains of discovery, with acquisition,
cataloging, and modeling of data not seen as isolated tasks, but rather as
parts of an ongoing, integrated sequence of analyses, with information and
uncertainty propagating forward and backward through the chain. A prototypical
example is surveying of astronomical populations, where source detection,
demographic modeling, and the design of survey instruments and strategies all
interact.

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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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