High-resolution asymptotics for the angular bispectrum of spherical random fields

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-41

  Marinucci, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bispectrum; Cosmic microwave background radiation; Gaussianity; Spherical random fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744796252     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053605000000903     Document Type: Article

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