Some Statistics for Measuring Large-Scale Structure

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Brandenberger, Robert H.; Kaplan, David M.; A, Stephen; Ramsey;
(1993)
  • Subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | Astrophysics
Good statistics for measuring large-scale structure in the Universe must be able to distinguish between different models of structure formation. In this paper, two and three dimensional ``counts in cell" statistics and a new ``discrete genus statistic" are applied to to... View more
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