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Re: Which Cocked Hat?
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2019 Aug 4, 14:25 +0100
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2019 Aug 4, 14:25 +0100
Well under certain assumptions about the errors being roughly Gaussian and being independent and the ratio of the variances estimated, I would suggest taking a point on the elliptical probability contour closest to the danger would make some sense rather than the corners of the cocked hat. Bill (emailing from a plane that seems to be over the Labrador Peninsular)
