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Re: Instumental error?

From: Alexandre Eremenko (no email)
Date: Wed Apr 20 2005 - 21:49:47 EDT

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    Fred,

    On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Fred Hebard wrote:

    > It's just that when you get down to around 0.2' of arc,
    > the difference
    > between 0.24' and 0.16' might be informative.

    Agree. But in my case the purpopse was to detect the
    systematic error in principle.
    If the average error of 7 measurements is 0.4-0.6,
    and SD is about 0.2, the bias is evident,
    and the next digit does not give
    much
    info.

    Alex.


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