1 INTRODUCTION  
2 THE BOSS CMASS-DR11 DATASET  
3 THE POWER SPECTRUM ESTIMATOR  
3.1 Commonly used approximations  
3.2 The Yamamoto et al. (2006) power spectrum estimator  
3.3 The Poisson shot noise  
4 CMASS-DR11 MOCK CATALOGUES  
4.1 The covariance matrix  
5 THE SURVEY WINDOW FUNCTION  
5.1 The convolution of the power spectrum with the window function  
5.2 The integral constraint  
6 MODELLING THE MULTIPOLE POWER SPECTRA  
6.1 PT approach to model the galaxy power spectrum in redshift space  
6.2 The Alcock-Paczynski effect  
6.3 Model parameterization  
6.4 Effective wave-number  
7 TESTING FOR SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES AND DETERMINING THE MAXIMUM WAVENUMBER, $k_{\mathrm{max}}$  
7.1 Test with N-body simulation  
7.2 Uncertainties from perturbation theory  
7.3 The impact of different HODs  
7.4 Uncertainty in the underlying linear matter power spectrum  
7.5 Summary of the study of possible systematics  
8 ANALYSIS  
8.1 Fitting preparation  
8.2 Results  
8.3 To use our results  
8.4 Comparison to other measurements  
9 COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS  
9.1 Consistency check using CMASS-DR11 and Planck 2013  
9.2 Constraining $\sigma_{8}$ with CMASS-DR11  
10 CONCLUSION