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Re: On LOPs
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2002 Apr 16, 08:47 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2002 Apr 16, 08:47 +1000
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. > > I attach an example of a 95% confidence ellipse. A query: does the DR position affect the MPP? What else does, apart from 'the angles that the three LOPs cross at'?
