New results in the geometry of random fields, with applications to CMB and galaxy density Keith Worsley, Hugo Drouin, Pauline Klein Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
Milky way
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: spectra and redshifts Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 328, 1039–1063 (2001) Milky way
fMRI data: 120 scans, 3 scans each of hot, rest, warm, rest, hot, rest, … T = (hot – warm effect) / S.d. ~ t 110 if no effect
Gaussianized χ 2 field? Gaussian threshold EC
Gaussianized T field? Gaussian threshold EC
EC for WMAP, unsmoothed, FWHM = 1.6 o Gaussian threshold EC Observed Expected
Observed – Expected EC, with Poisson sd in tails EC Gaussian threshold
EC for WMAP smoothed to FWHM o (expected) no smoothing scale space
Simulation (expected) no smoothing scale space
Scale space WMAP data o 20.5 o Gaussian threshold EC Observed Expected