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ABSTRACT

1.INTRODUCTION

2.THE LARGE-SCALE GALAXY DISTRIBUTION WITHIN z 0.2

2.1.From 2D Photometric Galaxy Catalogues to Redshift Surveys

2.2.The Era of Multi-Object Spectroscopy

3.A FAIR SAMPLE OF THE UNIVERSE?

3.1.Density Fluctuations and Variances

3.2.Mapping Light, Mapping Mass

4.CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES AS TRACERS OF LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE

4.1.The REFLEX Survey

5.STATISTICS OF LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE

5.1.The Galaxy Two-Point Correlation Function

5.1.1.Redshift Space Distortions

5.1.2.The Large-Scale Shape of (r)

5.2.The Clustering of Clusters

5.3.The Power Spectrum

5.3.1.The Power Spectrum of the Galaxy Distribution

5.3.2.The Power Spectrum from Clusters

5.4.Features in the Power Spectrum

6.EVOLUTION OF LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE

6.1.Non-Evolving Tracers?

6.2.Large Redshift Surveys to z ~ 1 and Beyond

6.3.X-ray Clusters as Tracers of High-z Structure

7.CONCLUSIONS

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