a st ro - p h / 93 12 02 8 v 1 1 4 D ec 1 99 3 ROBUST MORPHOLOGICAL MEASURES FOR LARGE - SCALE STRUCTURE IN THE UNIVERSE
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We propose a novel method for the description of spatial patterns formed by a coverage of point sets representing galaxy samples. This method is based on a complete family of morphological measures known as Minkowski functionals, which includes the topological Euler characteristic and geometric descriptors to specify the content, shape and connectivity of spatial sets.
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