Statistics of the Galaxy Distribution
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Author(s): V. J. Martinez and E. Saar
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 1584880848
Format: hardback
432pp
Price: £52.99
Review Date: 29 October 2002
Review: This book describes the available observational data on the distribution of galaxies and the application of spatial statistics in cosmology. It provides a detailed derivation of the basic statistical methods used to study the spatial distribution of galaxies and of the cosmological physics that is needed to formulate the statistical models. The book begins with a description of galaxies, magnitude systems, and distance indicators in astronomy and looks at the structure of the universe. It describes the standard hot big bang model of the universe and the methods of analysing the galaxy distribution using techniques developed for point processes. There is a whole chapter devoted to fractal methods for analysing galaxy clustering. Other chapters include: statistical and geometrical models; formation of structure; random fields in cosmology’ Fourier analysis of clustering; cosmography; and structure statistics.