CMB bispectrum, trispectrum, non-Gaussianity, and the Cramer-Rao bound
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CMB bispectrum, trispectrum, non-Gaussianity, and the Cramer-Rao bound
Minimum-variance estimators for the parameter fnl that quantifies local-model non-Gaussianity can be constructed from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectrum (three-point function) and also from the trispectrum (four-point function). Some have suggested that a comparison between the estimates for the values of fnl from the bispectrum and trispectrum allow a consistency test for the mod...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review D
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1550-7998,1550-2368
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.83.023007