ARE SP-91 AND COBE INCONSISTENT WITH COLD DARK-MATTER

We present results on the consistency of standard cold dark matter (CDM) models with both the COBE normalization and the data from the fourth channel of the nine-point South Pole scan. We find that CDM models are consistent with both experiments, a conclusion which is at odds with some other analyses. This is partly due to our treatment of the temperature autocorrelation function, but mainly follows from the realization that the statistical conclusions depend strongly on assumptions about the prior distribution for the normalization Q.