Statistics, of galaxy clustering

Author(s): Martinez, VJ; Saar, E

Book Editor(s): Feigelson, ED; Babu, GJ

Conference: 3rd Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy Conference (SCMA III) Location: PENN STATE UNIV, UNIVERSITY PK, PA Date: JUL 18-21, 2001

Sponsor(s): Natl Sci Fdn, Div Math Sci; Natl Aeronaut & Space Adm, Appl Informat Syst Res Program

Source: STATISTICAL CHALLENGES IN ASTRONOMY  Pages: 143-160   DOI: 10.1007/0-387-21529-8_10   Published: 2003

In this introductory talk we will establish connections between the statistical. analysis of galaxy clustering in cosmology and recent work in mainstream spatial statistics. The lecture will review the methods of spatial statistics used by both sets of scholars, having in mind the cross-fertilizing purpose of the meeting series. Special topics will be: description of the galaxy samples, selection effects and biases, correlation functions, nearest neighbor distances, void probability functions, Fourier analysis, and structure statistics.

This paper is followed by a commentary by Rien van de Weygaert.