1 INTRODUCTION  
2 THE DATA  
2.1 The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: DR12  
2.2 Additional data sets  
3 METHODOLOGY  
3.1 Modelling  
3.2 Anisotropic galaxy clustering  
3.3 Analytical model for the full covariance matrix  
3.4 Redshift binning optimisation  
3.5 Model performance on mock catalogues  
4 THE LINEAR BIAS OF THE BOSS GALAXY SAMPLE  
4.1 The redshift evolution of the linear bias of BOSS galaxies  
4.2 The impact of the bias redshift evolution of BOSS galaxies on cosmological constraints  
5 COSMOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS  
5.1 The standard Λ CDM model  
5.2 The dark energy equation-of-state parameter  
5.3 Non spatially-flat Universes  
5.4 Massive neutrinos  
5.5 Deviations from General Relativity  
5.6 Comparison to companion papers  
6 CONCLUSIONS