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6.11.1 Maximum Likelihood Estimates 172<br />

6.11.2 Quadratic Estimators 175<br />

6.11.3 Uncorrelated Error Bars 176<br />

6.11.4 Data Compression <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Karhunen-Loève Transform 177<br />

6.12 Measurements in N-Body Simulations 179<br />

6.12.1 Cosmic Error <strong>and</strong> Cosmic Bias in Simulations 179<br />

6.12.2 N-Body Relaxation <strong>and</strong> Force S<strong>of</strong>tening 180<br />

7 Applications to Observations 181<br />

7.1 The Problem <strong>of</strong> Galaxy Biasing 181<br />

7.1.1 Some General Results 182<br />

7.1.2 Halo Clustering in <strong>the</strong> Tree Hierarchical Model 187<br />

7.1.3 Halo Clustering in <strong>the</strong> Extended Press-Schechter Approach 190<br />

7.1.4 Galaxy Clustering 191<br />

7.2 Projection Effects 194<br />

7.2.1 The Projected Density Contrast 195<br />

7.2.2 The Small-Angle Approximation 196<br />

7.2.3 Projection in <strong>the</strong> Hierarchical Model 197<br />

7.2.4 The Correlation Hierarchy for <strong>the</strong> Projected Density 199<br />

7.2.5 Comparison with Numerical Simulations 201<br />

7.2.6 Reconstructing <strong>the</strong> PDF <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Projected Density 204<br />

7.3 Weak Gravitational Lensing 205<br />

7.3.1 The Convergence Field as a Projected Mass Map 205<br />

7.3.2 Statistical Properties 207<br />

7.3.3 Next to Leading Order Effects 207<br />

7.3.4 Biasing from Weak Gravitational Lensing 208<br />

7.4 Redshift Distortions 209<br />

7.4.1 The Density Field in Redshift Space 209<br />

7.4.2 The Redshift-Space Power Spectrum 212<br />

7.4.3 The Redshift-Space Bispectrum 214<br />

7.4.4 The Higher-Order Moments in Redshift Space 217<br />

7.4.5 <strong>Cosmological</strong> Distortions 217<br />

8 Results from Galaxy Surveys 220<br />

8.1 Galaxies as <strong>Cosmological</strong> Tracers 220<br />

8.2 Results from Angular Galaxy Surveys 222<br />

8.2.1 Angular Catalogs 222<br />

8.2.2 The Angular Correlation Function <strong>and</strong> Power Spectrum 225<br />

8.2.3 Inversion from Angular to 3D Clustering 229<br />

8.2.4 Three-Point Statistics <strong>and</strong> Higher Order 232<br />

8.2.5 Skewness, Kurtosis <strong>and</strong> Higher-Order Cumulants 238<br />

8.2.6 Constraints on Biasing <strong>and</strong> Primordial Non-Gaussianity 241<br />

8.3 Results from Redshift Galaxy Surveys 243<br />

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