In the last decade, statisticians have developed a set of new statisti cal tools and approaches for the field of spatial point processes. At the same time, observational efforts have provided a huge amount of ne w cosmological data to be analyzed. For the first time in book form an d within a single volume, this text presents the state-of-the-art in t he use of spatial statistics in cosmology. After reviewing the standar d model of the universe and our current knowledge of its structure, th e author focuses on extracting a detailed statistical description of t he distribution of galaxies and...