Abstract
In reading the astronomical literature concerned with the distribution of galaxies in space, one encounters a combination of two basic ideas. One of these ideas is that the galaxies are clustered, and the other is that the large-scale organization of the distribution of galaxies is statistically uniform. Occasionally, the possibility of higher order clustering of galaxies is also mentioned.
This paper was prepared with the partial support of the National Science Foundation, U.S.A.
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Neyman, J., Scott, E.L. (1959). Large Scale Organization of the Distribution of Galaxies. In: Flügge, S. (eds) Astrophysik IV: Sternsysteme / Astrophysics IV: Stellar Systems. Handbuch der Physik / Encyclopedia of Physics, vol 11 / 53. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45932-0_11
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