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Ever since the first high-quality galaxy catalogues became available, statistics of large-scale structure has been an important tool to gain insight into the underlying physical processes and to allow for comparison of observations and predictions, both through theory and numerical experiment.
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Schmalzing, J., Kerscher, M. (1997). Minkowski Functionals in Cosmology. In: Schramm, D.N., Galeotti, P. (eds) Generation of Cosmological Large-Scale Structure. NATO ASI Series, vol 503. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0053-0_15
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