Related papers: Non-Gaussian Error in Galaxy Survey (Part 1)
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To investigate and specify the statistical properties of cosmological fields with particular attention to possible non-Gaussian features, accurate formulae for the bispectrum and the bispectrum covariance are required. The bispectrum is the…
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