Statistical analysis of large-scale structure in the Universe
Abstract
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Methods for the statistical characterization of the large-scale structure in the Universe will be the main topic of the present text. The focus is on geometrical methods, mainly Minkowski functionals and the J-function. Their relations to standard methods used in cosmology and spatial statistics and their application to cosmological datasets will be discussed. This work is not only meant as a short review for comologist, but also attempts to illustrate these morphological methods and to make them accessible to scientists from other fields. Consequently, a short introduction to the standard picture of cosmology is given.
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LaTeX using amsmath, amssymb, epsfig, mncite, a4, natbib, makeidx, 31 pages, 18 figures, to appaer in: Proceedings of the Conference on Statistical Physics and Spatial Satistics (Wuppertal, Feb. 1999), eds. Klaus Mecke and Dietrich Stoyan