1994/12/17 by T. Buchert
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph
published as Muecket et al. (eds) World Scientific (1995) 156-161 · 8 pages, uuencoded compressed ps-file, 1 MByte
arxiv created 1994/12/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
A complete family of statistical descriptors for the morphology of large--scale structure based on Minkowski--Functionals is presented. These robust and significant measures can be used to characterize the local and global morphology of spatial patterns formed by a coverage of point sets which represent galaxy samples. Basic properties of these measures are highlighted and their relation to the `genus statistics' is discussed. Test models like a Poissonian point process and samples generated from a Voronoi--model are put into perspective.