Estimating the K function of a point process with an application to cosmology.

DOI10.1214/AOS/1015957468zbMATH Open1105.62371arXivphysics/0006047OpenAlexW1561829533MaRDI QIDQ1848838FDOQ1848838

Authors: Michael L. Stein, Jean M. Quashnock, Ji Meng Loh 

Publication date: 14 November 2002

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by the study of an important data set for understanding the large-scale structure of the universe, this work considers the estimation of the reduced second moment function, or K-function, of a stationary point process observed over a large number of segments of possibly varying lengths. Theory and simulation are used to compare the behavior of isotropic and rigid motion correction estimators and some modifications of these estimators. These results generally support the use of modified versions of the rigid motion correction. When applied to a catalog of astronomical objects known as absorbers, the proposed methods confirm results from earlier analyses of the absorber catalog showing clear evidence of clustering up to 50 Mpc and marginal evidence for clustering of matter on spatial scales beyond 100 Mpc, which is beyond the distance at which clustering of matter is now generally accepted to exist.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0006047

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Markovian processes: estimation (62M09) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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Uses Software

• spatial
• bootlib

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