Adventures with the One-Point Distribution Function
As I promised a few people, here are the slides I used for my talk earlier today at the meeting I am attending. Actually I was given only 30 minutes and used up a lot of that time on two things that haven’t got much to do with the title. One was a quiz to identify the six famous astronomers (or physicists) who had made important contributions to statistics (Slide 2) and the other was on some issues that arose during the discussion session yesterday evening. I didn’t in the end talk much about the topic given in the title, which was about how, despite learning a huge amount about certain aspects of galaxy clustering, we are still far from a good understanding of the one-point distribution of density fluctuations. I guess I’ll get the chance to talk more about that in the near future!
P.S. I think the six famous faces should be easy to identify, so there are no prizes but please feel free to guess through the comments box!
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September 1, 2015 at 9:25 pm
Galileo top left and Gauss bottom middle. I’m not an astronomy so I hope I can be excused the rest
September 1, 2015 at 10:01 pm
or an astronomer
September 1, 2015 at 11:14 pm
I’d expect you nevertheless to get the top centre….
…and you may well know the top right through his functions.
September 2, 2015 at 12:21 pm
Laplace… I had to search Google Images to check, but it was the first search I did.
And then I searched for Bessel, thanks to your hint
September 2, 2015 at 2:38 pm
I’d modify the last sentence of the last slide as at first glance I thought that what we “already have” were the “things” rather than the data.