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Statistics, Machine Learning & Citizen Science: Foundations

Modern astronomy produces datasets too large for manual inspection alone, making statistics, machine learning, and carefully designed citizen-science projects important parts of discovery. These tools enable Rubin-scale alert streams, archival discovery, exoplanet vetting, morphology catalogs, and searches for rare phenomena.

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Modern astronomy produces datasets too large for manual inspection alone, making statistics, machine learning, and carefully designed citizen-science projects important parts of discovery.

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Machine-learning models learn statistical relationships in training data and then predict labels or properties for new data.