1st Edition

Statistics of the Galaxy Distribution

By Vicent J. Martinez, Enn Saar Copyright 2001
452 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

450 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

456 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

Over the last decade, statisticians have developed new statistical tools in the field of spatial point processes. At the same time, observational efforts have yielded a huge amount of new cosmological data to analyze. Although the main tools in astronomy for comparing theoretical results with observation are statistical, in recent years, cosmologists have not been generally aware of the... Read more
The Clumpy Universe. The Standard Model of the Universe. Cosmological Point Processes. Fractal Properties of the Galaxy Distribution. Statistical and Geometrical Models. Formation of Structure. Random Fields in Cosmology. Fourier Analysis of Clustering. Cosmography. Structure Statistics. Appendices. References.

Biography

Martinez, Vicent J.; Saar, Enn