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Re: Still on LOP's (mea culpa)
From: Steven Tripp
Date: 2002 Apr 26, 14:54 +0900

On 4/26/02 1:48 PM, "Michael Wescott"  wrote:

> So Steven Tripp, Trevor Kenchington et al. were correct that the MPP is
> not the center of the inscribed circle.

I enclose two plots with MPPs and 95% confidence ellipses around twelve
random LOPS and a third plot.

Plotx2 and plotx3 are identical, except that x3  is a 25% ellipse.

These suggest to me that rather than *carefully* taking one sight on one
body (at a time), it would be better to take three or four sights in rapid
succession on each body and let statistical sampling clean up the mess.

Steve T.

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