We present a formalism for analysing redshift distortions based on a spherical harmonic expansion of the density field. We use a maximum likelihood estimator for the combination of density and bias parameters, Ω⁰.6/b. We test the method with N-body simulations and apply it to the 1.2 Jy IRAS redshift survey.
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Fisher et al. (1994) studied this question.