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Re: Still on LOP's
From: Rodney Myrvaagnes
Date: 2002 Apr 24, 11:54 -0500
From: Rodney Myrvaagnes
Date: 2002 Apr 24, 11:54 -0500
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:36:56 -0300, Trevor J. Kenchington wrote: > >That is a point which has come up before on this thread. If there are but two LOPs, it is clear that the contour is elliptical with Gaussian distributions. Are we to understand that that is also true if there are three LOPs? More than three? > >I Yes, it is an ellipse because the space we are talking about has two dimensions. The probability distributions for all measurements can be resolved along a pair of orthogonal aces vectorially. The 2D Gaussian would be eliptical if the two gaussians that made it up had different standard deviations. If they were the same, the ellipse would become a circle. Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a "Curse thee, thou quadrant. No longer will I guide my earthly way by thee." Capt. Ahab
