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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 developments in statistics and vice versa.Statistics of the Galaxy Distribution describes both the available observational data on the distribution of galaxies and the applications of spatial statistics in cosmology. It gives a detailed derivation of the statistical methods used to study the galaxy distribution and the cosmological physics needed to formulate the statistical models. Because the prevalent approach in cosmological statistics has been frequentist, the authors focus on the most widely used of these methods, but they also explore Bayesian techniques that have become popular in large-scale structure studies.Describing the most popular methods, their latest applications, and the necessary mathematical and astrophysical background, this groundbreaking book presents the state of the art in the statistical description of the large-scale structure of the Universe.Cosmology’s well-defined and growing data sets represent an important challenge for the statistical analysis, and therefore for the statistics community. Statistics of the Galaxy Distribution presents a unique opportunity for researchers in both fields to strengthen the connection between them and, using a common language, explore the statistical description of the universe.

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⭐This cutting-edge textbook on the Statistics of the Galaxy Distribution describes and predicts the pattern forming habits, distribution laws, and spatial resolutions of the large-scale cosmological structures in the universe. Galaxies, clusters, superclusters, walls of galaxies, filamentary regions, voids, and dark matter areas are discussed. Not only does the book detail the astrophysical natures of these physical structures but it also uses recent developments in statistics in order to predict that which cannot be known absolutely from mere astronomical observation. Cosmological point processes and continuous random fields are stochastic (random) processes outlined in the book. They describe the frequency of the originating matter in the universe that distributes itself in a mode that represents the harmonics of space. Some of the geometry used in the book is non-Euclidean because the large regions of space that are being assesed reside where space-time curvature is accounted for.Periodic sollutions for cosmological fields, such as spectras for Gaussian random fields, are modelled with “gradient topographies”, as waveforms, using Fourier transforms. The digital imaging of reallized spectra, the Boolean grain model for Poisson distribution, cosmological simulation for a percolating cluster, and the redshift survey for voids are pretty cool.This book tackles a wide range of mathematical topics and applies areas of very pertinent, recent fields of scientific inquiry. The void probability function, fractal properties of the galaxy distribution, fractal models for the univesre, Hausdorff dimension (in relation to sets of fractioned dimension), correlation lenghth and fractal behaviour, multifractal measures (very interesting), the Voronoi model of tesselations (a crystalline structure of galaxy distribution composed of cellular geometry), Fourier analysis of clustering, random fields and point processes, redshift distortions, pencil-beams and slices, and an awesome section devoted to cosmography includes areas on time machines, gravitational lensing, cosmic shear etc. also topological measurements, Minkowski functionals, cluster and percolation analysis, spaning trees, wavelets, void statistics, supergalactic coordinate systems, it’s a very versatile cosmology text.The specificity of subject this book examines is a very fascinating and important one. The way the universe disperses matter and organizes itself spatially, on a large-scale, may soon give clues to the general unified theory of physical fields, as information correlations for small-scale distributions. Observing the surveys of the largest fields reveal that the patterns for galaxy distribution form a network resembling nothing else but the axonal webbing of the brain.For any fascinated students, scientists or mathematicians, this book provides valuable knowledge about the universe. If this was all you understood about cosmology you would be closer to absolute cosmological knowledge than a cosmologist who knew nothing but general theory.Other recommendations would be; Towards the Edge of the Universe by Stuart Clark, Galactic Astronomy by James Binney and Astrometry of Fundamental Catalogues by H.G. Walter

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