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Paper: Statistical measures of galaxy clustering
Volume: 5, The Minnesota Lectures on Clusters of Galaxies and Large-Scale Structure
Page: 1
Authors: Porter, David H.
Abstract: Consideration is given to the large-scale distribution of galaxies and ways in which this distribution may be statistically measured. Galaxy clustering is hierarchical in nature, so that the positions of clusters of galaxies are themselves spatially clustered. A simple identification of groups of galaxies would be an inadequate description of the true richness of galaxy clustering. Current observations of the large-scale structure of the universe and modern theories of cosmology may be studied with a statistical description of the spatial and velocity distributions of galaxies.
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