This Astro2020 State of the Profession Consideration White Paper highlights the growth of astrostatistics and astroinformatics in astronomy, identifies key issues hampering the maturation of these new subfields, and makes recommendations for structural improvements at different levels that, if acted upon, will make significant positive impacts across astronomy.
@article{arxiv.1909.11714,
title = {Realizing the potential of astrostatistics and astroinformatics},
author = {Gwendolyn Eadie and Thomas J. Loredo and Ashish A. Mahabal and Aneta Siemiginowska and Eric Feigelson and Eric B. Ford and S. G. Djorgovski and Matthew Graham and Zeljko Ivezic and Kirk Borne and Jessi Cisewski-Kehe and J. E. G. Peek and Chad Schafer and Padma A. Yanamandra-Fisher and C. Alex Young},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11714},
year = {2019}
}
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14 pages, 1 figure; submitted to the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020) on 10 July 2019; see https://sites.nationalacademies.org/DEPS/Astro2020/DEPS_192906