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Re: On LOPs
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2002 Apr 16, 02:39 +0000
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2002 Apr 16, 02:39 +0000
Steven, Could you please explain to us why the size of the confidence ellipse would depend in part on the angles that the three LOPs cross at? This is news to me. Could you post the formula you are using so we can study this dependency? With regards, Herbert Prinz Steven Tripp wrote: > > There is a statistical method for calculating the confidence ellipse that > surrounds the Most Probable Position. The size of the ellipse depends in part > on the angles that the three LOPs cross at. I have a program which calculates > the ellipse.