Sherpa Documents

Various Sherpa-related documents are available for download. Some are in HTML format, so they can be viewed directly in your web browser. Others are in PDF and Postscript format, so you must print them or examine them in an external viewer (such as Acrobat Reader or Ghostview).

There is a separate page which lists Sherpa Publications.

Manuals

• Sherpa Reference Manual (HTML) or PS (459 pages)

• The Chandra ABC Guide to Pileup (PS, 23 pages)

• GUIDE Manual

• S-Lang in CIAO webpages

Presentations

Sherpa

• Introduction to Sherpa - CIAO workshop, May 2002
• Sherpa, part I - HEAD meeting, 2000
• Sherpa, part II - HEAD meeting, 2000

Statistics

• Statistics: Basic Concepts - Int'l X-ray Astronomy School, 2005
• Statistics: Model Hypothesis Testing - Int'l X-ray Astronomy School, 2005
• Statistics in the X-ray Regime - CIAO workshop, May 2002
• Statistics I: Issues in Model Fitting in the X-ray Regime - GSFC X-ray School, 2001
• Statistics II: Model Comparison and Parameter Estimation - GSFC X-ray School, 2001