The statistics of peaks of Gaussian random fields

• 1 May 1986
• journal article
• Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
• Vol. 304, 15-61
• https://doi.org/10.1086/164143

Abstract

Keywords

• COSMOLOGY
• DENSITY DISTRIBUTION
• GALACTIC CLUSTERS
• GALACTIC EVOLUTION
• RANDOM PROCESSES
• STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
• DENSITY (NUMBER/VOLUME)
• MASS DISTRIBUTION
• MASS TO LIGHT RATIOS
• MAXIMA
• MISSING MASS (ASTROPHYSICS)
• PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
• RED SHIFT
• STATISTICAL CORRELATION
• VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION