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Re: On LOPs


Subject: Re: On LOPs
From: Peter Fogg (ffive@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 18:47:15 EDT


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'?





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