1 INTRODUCTION

2 MINKOWSKI FUNCTIONALS OF THE GERM–GRAIN MODEL  
2.1 Minkowski Functionals  
2.2 Germ–Grain Model  
2.3 Statistical Interpretation  
2.4 Gauss–Poisson Process  
2.5 Extracting Higher Order Correlations  

3 THE NEW CODE PACKAGE: MINKOWSKI–4  
3.1 Computation of the Germ–Grain Model  
3.2 Partial MFs  
3.3 Treatment of Boundaries  
3.4 The Structure Volume  

4 APPLICATION: THE SDSS LRG SAMPLE  
4.1 The Data  
4.2 The Functionals on Different Scales  

5 NON–GAUSSIAN CORRELATIONS  
5.1 Integrals of the Two–Point Correlation Function  
5.2 Integrals of the Three–Point Correlation Function  
5.3 Importance of Higher Order Correlations  
5.4 Coefficients of a Lognormal Distribution  

6 CONCLUSION