The needlets bispectrum

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 332-367

  Lan, Xiaohong ^a   Marinucci, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bispectrum; Cosmic microwave background radiation; High resolution asymptotics; Needlets; Spherical random fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 58649114516     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-EJS197     Document Type: Article

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