Abstract
We present an analysis of the 4 year data from the COBE DMR experiment. We use a Karhunen- Loeve expansion of the pixel data to calculate the normalization and goodness of -t of a range of models of structure formation. This technique produces unbiased normalization estimates and is capable of determining the normalization of any particular model with a statistical uncertainty of 7%. We present a parameterization of the normalization and likelihood function which summarizes our results for a wide range of models. We use the COBE normalization to compute small-scale Nuctuation ampli- tudes for a variety of models and discuss the implications of these results for theories of large-scale structure. Subject headings: cosmic microwave background E cosmology: theory E large-scale structure of universe E methods: statistical
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