Statistical analysis of galaxy surveys - I. Robust error estimation for two-point clustering statistics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 396, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-38

  Norberg, P ^a   Baugh, C M ^b   Gaztanaga E ^c   Croton, D J ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cosmology: theory; Galaxies: statistics; Large scale structure of Universe

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; GALAXIES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICS;

CLUSTERINGS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COSMOLOGY: THEORY; DARK MATTER; ERROR ESTIMATORS; GALAXIES: RED-SHIFT; GALAXIES: STATISTICS; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE; SMALL SCALE; TWO-POINT;

SURVEYS;

EID: 66549123705     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14389.x     Document Type: Article

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