# AstroStat School 2026 — New York

Welcome to the **8th AstroStatistics School**, New York 2026.

This book contains lecture materials, hands-on notebooks, and answer keys for the school sessions.
Use the sidebar to navigate topics. Each notebook can be opened and run interactively in Google Colab — look for the rocket icon at the top of each page.

## Topics

- **Template** — remove before flight
- **Fitting & Optimization** — you think you fit ??
- **Bayesian** — Getting your hands dirty 
- **MCMC** — MC Hammer ...
- **Machine Learning** — Well lets talk about business.