Higher criticism statistic: Detecting and identifying non-Gaussianity in the WMAP first-year data

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 362, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 826-832

  Cayon L ^a   Jin, J ^b   Treaster, A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmology: miscellaneous; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PIXELS; STATISTICS;

CONFIDENCE REGION; COSMIC MICROWAVES BACKGROUND; COSMOLOGY: MISCELLANEOUS; FIRST YEAR; GAUSSIANITY; METHODS:STATISTICAL; NONGAUSSIANITY; NORMAL MEAN; WAVELET SPACE; WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 25144489150     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09277.x     Document Type: Review

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